"Yellowstone" at Westover Library, Arlington, Virginia, August 15 - September 30, 2017
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Lodgepole Pines
Lodgepole pine forests cover 80 percent of the total forested areas in Yellowstone National Park. Lodgepole pine is named for its common use as structural poles for the Native American tipi shelter. A typical tipi is constructed using 15 to 18 pines. The long, straight, and lightweight characteristics of the species made it ideal for horse transport by the buffalo-hunting nomadic tribes of the Great Plains. Tribes made long journeys across the plains to acquire lodgepole pines, which grew only in mountainous areas.
---Greg Embree, curator
"If you are on your way out the south entrance of Yellowstone in winter, you get treated to this mesmerizing line of lodgepole pine trees on a straight stretch of roadway...all over-the-snow."
---DJ Choupin
Note: Artists contribute 20% of sales made during their exhibit to the Friends of the Arlington County Library, to help support Library programming.
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