{"id":302,"date":"2024-10-29T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2024-10-29T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T21:38:08","slug":"ponderosa-pine-cone-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/projects-and-activities\/ponderosa-pine-cone-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Region 3 (AZ &#038; NM) Ponderosa Pine Cone Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Region 3 (AZ &amp; NM) Ponderosa Pine Cone Collection<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-307 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-1-464x348.jpg\" alt=\"Ponderosa Pine Cone from Ppine cone collection project.\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-1-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-1-232x174.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2023, the NAU Greenhouse collected Ponderosa Pine cones from three different National Forests across Northern Arizona in conjunction with New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) to add to the New Mexico (NM) Reforestation Center\u2019s Conifer Seed Bank for future restoration and research purposes at universities across AZ and NM. Approximately 30 bushels of cones were harvested yielding about 20 pounds of ponderosa seed was harvested from 6 sites in the mid to lower elevation areas of the ponderosa pine habitat range of 5,000 ft to 7,500 ft. These seeds will be used in restoration, as well as population and mother tree level studies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-308 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine2-464x348.jpg\" alt=\"Standing Ponderosa Pine Tree.\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine2-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine2-232x174.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant species: <\/strong>Four Corners Ponderosa Pine (<em>Pinus ponderosa<\/em> subsp. b<em>rachyptera<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding source<\/strong>: NM Reforestation Center Cone Collection Program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborators: <\/strong>NAU, NMHU, NMRC<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-landscape-image wp-image-309 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-3-464x348.jpg\" alt=\"Adair Patterson collecting pine cones for the Ponderosa Pine Cone Collection project.\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-3-464x348.jpg 464w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2024\/10\/Ponderosa-Pine-3-232x174.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Participants:<\/strong><br \/>\nAdair Patterson, NAU Greenhouse Manager<br \/>\nNicholas Quayle, NAU Greenhouse Assistant Manager<br \/>\nDr. Aalap Dixit, NMHU Assistant Professor of Forestry, NAU Adjust Assistant Professor of Forestry<br \/>\nDr. Josh Sloan, NMHU Associate Professor of Forestry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region 3 (AZ &amp; NM) Ponderosa Pine Cone Collection In the fall of 2023, the NAU Greenhouse collected Ponderosa Pine cones from three different National Forests across Northern Arizona in conjunction with New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) to add to the New Mexico (NM) Reforestation Center\u2019s Conifer Seed Bank for future restoration and research purposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}