Pinus correctus.Editor: I've lent out my last issue of American Forests American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens that included an article on the Great Basin bristlecone pine The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) is one of the bristlecone pines, a group of three species of pine found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States. Great Basin Bristlecone Pine occurs in Utah, Nevada and eastern California. , so I don't have it to refer to for this letter, but my memory is that the author did not use the correct species. The article was about the bristlecone pine bristlecone pine, common name for the pine species Pinus longaeva, found in the White Mountains of California. Specimens are known that are nearly 5,000 years old. trees in Nevada and the national champion bristlecone pine in the (California side) White Mountains White Mountains, part of the Appalachian system, N N.H. and SW Maine, rising to 6,288 ft (1,917 m) at Mt. Washington in the Presidential Range and to 5,249 ft (1,600 m) at Mt. Lafayette in the Franconia Mountains. Crawford Notch separates these two main groups. . Later in the article, the author refers to the bristlecone as Pinus aristata. Pinus longaeva is the correct species. Pinus aristata, or Rocky Mountain bristlecone, is not native to Nevada, does not grow at the Great Basin National Park Great Basin National Park National preserve, eastern Nevada, U.S. Made a national park in 1986, the area was previously part of the Humboldt National Forest. It has an area of 121 sq mi (313 sq km) and consists of the southern part of the Snake Mountains, a chain that rises , and is also the incorrect species for the National champion in the White Mountains. I repectfully request your magazine make a correction. Susan Stead Nevada Division of Forestry Editor's Note: Thanks for catching that editing error. We should have clarified that inter-mountain bristlecone pine, the species described in the story, is Pinus aristata var. longaeva. Pinus aristata var. aristata is Colorado bristlecone pine. The correct state tree for New Jersey is red oak, not flowering dogwood as listed in the Spring issue of American Forests. Send your Letters to the Editor to mrobbins@amfor.org or c/o American Forests, PO Box 2000, Washington, DC 20013. American Forests reserves the right to edit letters. |
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