Part of
🌲︎ pine genus Pinus
in
🌲︎ cedar / fir / hemlock / larch / pine / spruce family Pinaceae
in
🌲︎ conifer order Pinales.
Native to 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Canada and USA 🗻︎ Rocky Mountain, Great Basin and nearby mountains areas — well into California.
🗺 Map (scroll down),
🗺 map (North America, Central America). 
In these areas (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. .
Accessed .
[2]
"Resin duct characteristics associated with tree resistance to bark beetles across lodgepole and limber pines." Oecologia. .
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2841-2
Accessed .