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Butterscotch? Vanilla? Or parched Pinus ponderosa?
If you happen to be hiking down a high-desert canyon on a scorching summer’s day and encounter a towering, girthy ponderosa pine, its gnarled roots reaching out into the sand and the cracks in the s…
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