I can see ponderosa pine Pinus ponderosa

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Also called bull pine, ◼︎ blackjack pine and ◼︎ western yellow pine.

In the western 🇺🇸 USA, 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 (this plant!) (in western 🇺🇸 USA) (where also called ◼︎ western yellow pine),
• ◼︎ eastern white pine  Pinus strobus (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 western 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 North America and México.

🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48), 🗺 map (scroll down), 🗺 map (North America, Central America). 

Invasive > Hawai'i

🏛🌲︎ State tree of Montana.

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.

Trees with large resin ducts may survive the beetle better than its siblings with smaller resin ducts.   ^{[1] [2]}

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]  "Fire:  A Vaccine for the Forest?"  USFS.  Apr 10, 2018.   Accessed 2020-10-25.

^[2]  "Resin duct characteristics associated with tree resistance to bark beetles across lodgepole and limber pines."  Oecologia.  2014 Apr. DOI: 10.1007/​s00442-013-2841-2   Accessed 2020-10-25.

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