The Denver Post ran an article yesterday in the "Scene" secion of the
newspaper about how Native Americans used to peel strips from Podorosa
pines for medicines, glue, and other uses. They're trying to create
interest in saving these trees. They were also talking about the bent
trees, and how twisted trunks in the oridinarily pencil-straight
lodgepole pines may have been culturally significant. Interesting how
they may have used bonsai techniques on a 75-foot tree. (and before
someone points it out, yes, I know it wasn't 75 feet tall then)