balsam-pine

Updated: May 7, 2025

They have, besides human foes, numberless enemies among the foxes, wolves, hawks, and other birds. The fecundity of the survivors, however, keeps pace with the many fatalities to which they are liable. "This elegant species," writes Wilson, "is known throughout North America. Its favourite places of resort are high mountains, covered with the balsam-pine and hemlock."

William Henry Giles Kingston - The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North: and South America

On the opposite side of the lake arose precipitous ridges, varying in height from five hundred to a thousand feet, covered with the balsam-pine, whose dark stately green, formed a magnificent contrast with the graceful foliage of the aspen, which bordered the lake. A curious phenomenon here attracted their attention.

D. W. (David W.) Belisle - The American Family Robinson: or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West