Evergreens - Traditional Alpine Fir Douglas Fir Jack Pine Juniper Lodgepole Pine Ponderosa Pine Red Pine Tamarack Western Hemlock Western Red Cedar White Pine (eastern and western) Spruce Trees Yellow Cypress or Yellow Cedar
Alpine Fir (along the Kootenay Pass, BC)
Trunk of Alpine Fir
Alpine Fir on the top of Mt. Revelstoke, BC
Alpine Fir needles
Juniper Berries
Juniper Bush
Lodgepole Pine near Bragg Creek, Alberta
Lodgepole Pine trunk
Female Lodgepole pine seed cones (on left) and smaller clustered male cones, which produce the pollen (on the right).
Ripened Lodgepole Pinecone
Young Lodgepole Pines
Lodgepole Pine Forest at Cypess Hills Provincial Park, Alberta
Images - Whispering pines. Sandy places where blueberries grow beneath the jack pines. The hard cone. Solitary, quiet places. Perception by Ray W
Jack Pine Cone and needles
New green Jack Pine cone
Jack Pine trunk - north of Great Slave Lake, NWT
Trunk of large mature Jack Pine - Tawatinaw, (North Central) Alberta
Jack Pines - Tawatinaw, Alberta
Jack Pine forest just north of Great Slave Lake, North West Territories . This country is part of the Canadian Shield, as the rocky land shows. Jack pines can grow in very rocky and poor soils.
Jack Pine forest north of Great Slave Lake NWT - notice how rocky the land is where these amazingly tough and hardy trees are growing. Just growing right out of the hard, hard rock of the Canadian Shield.
Young Ponderosa Pine
Ponderosa Pine Needles
Mature Ponderosa Pine growing in the BC Interior
Trunk of mature Ponderosa Pine
Ponderosa Pinecones
Young Ponderosa Pine growing beside the Kootenay River, BC
Tamarack Tree Trunk
Tamarack in the spring with new growth.
Tamarack cone
Tamarack trees in winter
Western Hemlock in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC
Western Hemlock needles
The top leader branch on Western Hemlocks is bent over. This is an easy way for you to identify, and separate a Western Hemlock from other evergreen trees in the thick forest.
At Mount Revelstoke National Park, BC
Young Blue Spruce
Black Spruce in muskeg at Elk Island Park, Alberta
Trunk of mature Black Spruce
Black spruce needles and spruce cones
Black Spruce Forest - South of Drayton Valley, Alberta
Black Spruce Forest - North West Territories
Young black spruce near Prelude Lake, North West Territories
Black spruce near Prelude Lake, North West Territories - this land is part of the Canadian Shield and very rocky.
Engelmann Spruce near Lake Louise, Alberta
Englemann Spruce cone
White Spruce
White Spruce Needles
Spruce beginning new growth in the spring.
Spruce Tree Forest
Western Red Cedar
Western Red Cedar trunk
Young Western Red Cedars
Western Red Cedar leaves or needles
Huge Western Red Cedar on Meares Island, Clayoquot Sound B.C.
White Pine (western) - on Mt. Revelstoke, BC
Western White Pine needles
Western White Pine Trunk
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