The white pine was adopted as Idaho’s state tree on February 13, 1935. According to the legislative bill, it was promoted by “members of Ellen Wright Camp, Franklin County Chapter, Daughters of Pioneers.”
The white pine is also the official tree of Maine, Michigan, and Ontario. Today, scientists recognize two species of white pine. Idaho’s white pine is the western white pine. It grows in the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia, and south into the Sierra Nevada of California. The tree that represents the other states and Ontario is the eastern white pine.
Idaho’s major tree species include the western white pine, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, whitebark pine, limber pine, Douglas fir, grand fir, subalpine fir, white fir, Engelmann spruce, western red cedar, western larch, western hemlock, aspen, and cottonwood.
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