Gray pine
The gray Pin ( Pinus banksiana ) is a tree pertaining to the kind Pinus and to the family of the Pinacées. One finds it in the Northern forest in North America in the east of the Rocky Mountains.
It is about a tree of intermediate size which can reach from 9 to 22 Mr.
This species is very present starting from the parallel 49e and occupies a very significant part in the forest productions of the north of the Quebec (area of Abitibi Témiscamingue) with the black spruce.
In French Canadian, it is commonly named cypress although it does not belong to the family of truths Cyprès.
The Paruline de Kirtland ( Dendroica kirtlandii ), small a Oiseau of Parulidae and currently regarded as quasi threatened depends mainly on the gray pine for its reproduction.
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