The signs of distressed pitch pines are everywhere to be seen.

It was the pitch pines and the scrub oaks that couldn't run away.

Most pitch pines burned in the fire were too old to resprout and up to 98 percent died.

He'd burst out between the pitch pines and was running down the slope of a dune.

One of the signs is more white pines and fewer pitch pines.

Suddenly, I was on a bluff covered with gnarled, ancient looking pitch pines.

At the top she looked around, but there was nothing to be seen but pitch pines and scrub oak trees.

Pitch pines, their needles scorched or burned off, stuck up here or there.

It occurs on Long Island with pitch pines.

We even eyed the gnarled native pitch pines growing as windbreaks on the edges of the fields.

Pitch pines grew out of their crevices, but there was not a vestige of soil.

The stingy soils on the glacier-scoured rock here provide footholds for pitch pines.

Only some pitch pines have serotinous cones.

Pitch pines, which are taller and far more plentiful than dwarf pines, also appear to have benefited.

Pitch pines with blackened trunks sprouted long needles that looked like cactus spines.

Nowadays the Pitch Pine is used mainly for rough construction, pulp, crating, and fuel.

The gnarled pitch pines often root themselves in cracks in the bedrock and grow only about eight feet tall under the harsh conditions.

The approach to this was through a succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines, into a larger wood about the swamp.

Most notable are the very large and old oaks and Pitch Pines (Pinus rigida).

The barrens, a wooded outback of pitch pines, scrub oaks and sandy soil, is more than five times the size of Manhattan.

Some botanists treat Pond Pine as a subspecies of Pitch Pine.

The land is an outback of pitch pines and scrub oaks near the junction of Long Island's north and south forks.

But Ms. Rasmussen wasn't thinking about the health of pitch pines and blueberry bushes last Thursday night as she fielded calls from friends.

Forest fires have contributed to the dominance of Pitch Pine in the Pine Barrens.

The Dwarf Pitch Pine which dominate the region grow not much taller than twenty feet in height due to dry, nutrient-poor soil.

Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) is the most abundant tree here.

They do not usually grow perfectly straight, resulting in an irregular shape similar to pitch pine (Pinus rigida).

Most notable are the very large and old oaks and Pitch Pines (Pinus rigida).

Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) and Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) are common within their respective ranges.

The larvae feed on Pinus species, including Pinus echinata, Pinus virginiana and Pinus rigida.

Long Islanders should be informed that there are two forms of pitch pine, the pioneer form Pinus rigida and its genetic dwarf form Pinus rigida serotina.

Farther north in Virginia, where Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida)and Shortleaf Pine (Pinus echinata) are more dominant, the resin acid content decreases to as low as 30-35% with a corresponding increase in the fatty acids present.

Longleaf Pine also is known as being one of several species grouped as a Southern Yellow Pine or Longleaf Yellow Pine, and in the past as Pitch Pine (a name dropped as it caused confusion with Pitch Pine, Pinus rigida).