The knobcone is a small pine tree, 10 to 30 feet tall, with yellow-green needles in groups of threes. It grows in the poorest of soils, up to 7,000 feet elevation, and reseeds only after a fire.
Knobcone bark and needles are tough and fibrous and hard to digest, and its cones …
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