Idaho. I drove E on Aug 20 to Tiger, then S on 20 to Newport. From there, I took Hwy 2 east to Sandpoint. The conifers along this route included ponderosa pine (nothing on the trees); doug fir (poorer and poorer crop, including mainly just the old crop); white pine (with the old cones [empty] from last year); western larch (nothing on the trees here); Engleman spruce was not apparent until I hit higher elevations in Idaho. Around Sandpoint, the crops on all trees was poor. I drove into the road along Trestle Creek and drove up the mountain to the lookout tower and ridge. Here Engleman spruce had the remains of the old crop (which was good) and few new cones. Nothing else had cones. I drove down again to Hwy 200, then took it S to Clark Fork. There, I crossed S into Nat'l Forest land on a one lane bridge. I followed the road always upward and southward. Soon I reached high elevations, but there were no dramatic shifts in vegetation until