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<p>How many cones can you identify? Clockwise from top left: ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, western larch, western hemlock, western red cedar, western white pine, grand fir, Engelmann spruce and Douglas-fir.     </p>

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Do you know your cones?
October 24, 2014 9 a.m.

Do you know your cones?

Plink, plink, plink, plop. Plink, plink, plink, plop. The sound of a busy squirrel harvesting cones as they drop to the forest floor. The squirrel is harvesting cones with the seeds still intact so he can stash them for winter.