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The eastern white pine (P. strobus) is one of the most valuable of North American timber trees because of its large size and the soft even grain of its white wood. It once formed extensive forests from Newfoundland to Manitoba, from Minnesota to Maine, and southward to the mountains to Georgia, but it was cut intensively for so long that by the second half of the 20th century very few old trees remained. On deep rich soil, eastern white pine can attain a height of 60 metres (197 feet) and a trunk diameter of 1 to 1.5 metres (3.3 to ...(100 of 1935 words)

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