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lodgepole pine † 
a slim, straight pine, Pinus contorta var. latifolia, common in the Rocky Mountain region, so called because the young trees make good lodgepoles.
See also: bull pine (def. 1) white pine (def. 2)
- 1916 Descending the road . . . through a forest of white spruce and lodge-pole pine, Cascade Mountain, Aylmer, Stony Squaw Mountain and Mt. Edith come more prominently into the picture.
- 1955 By a strange twist . . . the most perpendicular species of tree in Canada is known to botanists and foresters as Pinus Contortus--the contorted pine . . . first discovered by . . . David Douglas, over one hundred and twenty years ago. He found it in swampy soil near tidewater where, exposed to winds from the ocean, it was stunted and scrubby. . . . Thereupon the learned men . . . at Kew Gardens . . . bestowed upon it the aforementioned name . . . now best known as Lodgepole pine. . . .
- 1964 The new, fresh look at the old Skagway sites will be due to the fact that Alaska coast or Kenai birches and lodgepole pines have appeared following the destruction of the original darker green Sitka spruce and hemlocks by fire about 1912.
- 1916 Descending the road . . . through a forest of white spruce and lodge-pole pine, Cascade Mountain, Aylmer, Stony Squaw Mountain and Mt. Edith come more prominently into the picture.