I can see ◼︎ eastern (or northern) white pine Pinus strobus

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Also called:

• ◼︎ white pine,
• ◼︎ northern white pine,
• soft pine,
• tree of the Great Long Leaves generically (Haudenosaunee [Iroquois] ) ^[1] (although do not confuse with similar-named sister-species longleaf pine  Pinus palustris ),
• the Tree of Peace specifically (Haudenosaunee [Iroquois] ), ^[1] and
• Weymouth pine (in 🇬🇧 UK).

In the 🇬🇧 UK, also called ◼︎ yellow pine.  Although do not confuse with sister-species also sometimes called that:

• shortleaf pine  Pinus echinata (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• slash pine  Pinus elliottii          (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• longleaf pine  Pinus palustris  (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• loblolly pine  Pinus taeda        (in southern 🇺🇸 USA) (where wood marketed as ◼︎ southern yellow pine SYP),
• Jeffrey pine  Pinus jeffreyi             (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ponderosa pine  Pinus ponderosa (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ◼︎ eastern white pine  Pinus strobus (this plant!) (in 🇬🇧 UK), and
• Scots pine  Pinus sylvestris              (in 🇬🇧 UK).

Part of 🌲︎ pine  genus Pinus in 🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce  family Pinaceae in 🌲︎ conifer  order Pinales.

Native to 🇨🇦 Canada Great Lakes and Maritimes;  and 🇺🇸 USA Great Lakes, 🗻︎ Appalachia and New England.

🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48), 🗺 map (scroll down), 🗺 map (North America, Central America),   🗺 today + with climate change (eastern 🇺🇸 USA).   Invasive > Hawai'i

🏛🌲︎ Provincial tree of Ontario.  🏛🌲︎ State tree of Michigan and Maine.

The white pine cone and tassel is the 🏛❀ state flower of Maine.

In this area (particularly 🇨🇦 Canada AB BC SK, and 🇺🇸 USA AZ CA CO ID MO MT NV NM OR SD UT WA WI WY):

• do not move pine logs, stumps, branches, firewood nor untreated lumber

due to possible infestation by the insect mountain pine beetle (MPB)  Dendroctonus ponderosae, which carries various species of 🍄︎ fungus / mushroom  kingdom Fungi.

Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)

Pinus hosts caterpillars of 247 species
of butterflies and moths, in some areas.   This plant is also known to be a host for (in areas where invasive) 🐝︎ spotted lanternfly (SLF)  Lycorma delicatula.

References

^[1]  Around the years 1150 to 1550, the Haudenosaunee Peoples decided to end ongoing fighting between their five constituent nations.

To stop the fighting, they agreed to bury their weapons, or a single symbolic weapon, under the Tree of Peace — a large tree in the area — an ◼︎ eastern white pine  Pinus strobus (this tree).

To preserve the peace, they created the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy:

• a dem­o­crat­ic system of gov­ern­ment;  with a
• written constitution;
• amendable;  controlled by
• separate branches of gov­ern­ment, and
• balance of power.

A system of government that worked so well that:

• 237 to 637 years later, and
• 237 years ago,

the newly-birthed 🇺🇸 USA copied/​adapted this system, with all of the attributes above, for its form of gov­ern­ment, which it describes in its written constitution, later amended (as of this writing) 27 times.

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