notbob > wrote:

>On 2009-05-23, Steve Pope > wrote:

>> Look for fruit or nut woods -- pecan, apple, plum. (They aren't
>> native there either but there should be some around.)

>Not a lot of fruit/nut orchards at 7,000 ft.

Note necessarily true. Apple and pecan both grow at those
elevations. Not sure about plum or cherry -- probably not.

It is not uncommon, in a national forest in CO or NM, to
come upon a grove of gnarly disused apple trees, planted by a
settler many many decades ago.

Steve