Douglas Fir Cone

I can understand it catching your eye! Right now we're seeing a lot of green spruce cones on the ground: the spruce squirrels are busy cutting them down and hurling them at the ground. Makes quite a BANG when it hits a roof after falling 100 feet.

I think that the cones we find are usually dry and open. This is the first one I have ever seen that was on the ground and still green......a bit different looking than what we usually see. It caught my eye - the colors and shape was so different

Check out this webpage, near the bottom, for a Doug fir grown in Ohio. http://bobklips.com/earlyjune2008.html The young cone looks like yours, or at least more like yours than like the ones in Oregon. Or maybe I just haven't been observant enough...

I don't know what else it would be, and those 3-pronged tufts (we call them "mouse feet") are pretty characteristic of Douglas fir. Maybe someone else has an idea. I'll go look in my field guide again, too.

maybe I didnt id it properly? Any suggestions would help

That is the oddest looking Doug. fir cone I've ever seen, and I grew up around them. Wonder if the hot, dry climate in Utah affects them? It almost looks like a species variant.