RE: Community Forest

It is Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), and typically has that appearance when it grows inland. At the coast where I live it has an entirely different aspect, twisted and stunted by the storms blowing in off the mighty Pacific. Here is it called Shore Pine, but it does not grow straight and tall like the inland trees in Forest Grove. Elk love to graze on the grass in Lodgepole Pine forests, and Forest Grove is a great place to hunt elk.