Word: ponderosas
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...most familiar show to fall in this year's purge was Bonanza, an NBC western whose beginnings date back almost to TV's neolithic age-1959. In 13½ years TV viewers have watched Michael Landon, the baby-faced younger brother on the Ponderosa, grow a little jowly, and Lome Greene turn into an oats-and-saddle elder statesman. The series was as popular outside the U.S.: by last count, it was being seen in some 90 countries. The simple message that good always triumphs over bad is just as clear in Farsi as in English...
...more vulnerable than the site seeker might think. Take so-called "view locations"-sites high on the slopes of the Rockies, which real estate men have been selling off by thousands from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. Unpolluted air. Privacy. Dazzling vistas. House tastefully set amidst thick stands of ponderosa or lodgepole pines. No insults to the visiting...
...tree in the fire-ravaged forests in the name of anyone who sent in a label or code number from a can of its Big John's Beans 'n Fixin's. More than 200,000 requests were received in ten months, and an equivalent number of Ponderosa pine seedlings were planted in Washington's Wenatchee National Forest. The company mailed out a certificate to each respondent in the name of Hunt-Wesson and the U.S. Forest Service stating that he or she had "participated in a national-forest-building program...
...that the expansion of American suburbs is decreasing drastically the amount of breathing space left to the earth. Since green plants provide a lot of the oxygen we breathe, that is important for both the plants and us. Los Angeles smog has reportedly killed over a million of the Ponderosa pine in the hills outside the city. That destroys both watershed and forest...
Near Lake Arrowhead, about ten per cent of the Ponderosa pines, about 1,300,000 trees, have died from the L.A. smog. Ponderosa pines reign over the Western forests. They're often two hundred feet all, with ten-inch-long needles. They are the oldest trees with the longest roots. In a sense, they hold the forest together. After a forest fire, grass begins to grow, which is soon replaced by bushes, like mountain mahogany and thimbleberry. Fast growing poplar trees shade out the bushes, like quaking aspens. After about a hundred years, the coniferous forest again dominates the area...