The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

While every responsible citizen was fixated on election returns this week, my mind was high on a mountainside almost midway up California’s border with Nevada. It was there, last October at roughly 10 ...

High atop the remote, rocky slopes of California's White Mountains, the harsh conditions make it difficult for life to take root. But for a certain type of tree – and for those who have traveled here ...

If you’ve ever traveled to Death Valley National Park, the bristlecone pine woodlands are a sight to see. The oldest-known tree species in the world grows to 15 to 30 feet, but the contorted trees ...

What might be the world’s oldest tree – a bristlecone pine named Methuselah that is thousands of years old – is hidden in plain sight somewhere along the 4.5-mile Methuselah Trail in the Inyo National ...

510 BCE: Rising from a mountain’s shallow soil, a bristlecone pine begins its life. This Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is one of the oldest trees in the world, only outlived by its cousin the Great ...

The Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is famous for its longevity. The oldest known living specimen, near Pikes Peak, is 2500 years old. Native to Colorado, Bristlecone pines grow in some of the state’s ...

The next time you drive up the Mount Evans Scenic and Historic Byway, the highest paved road in North America, be sure to stop at one of its most interesting, but least-known, attractions: a grove of ...

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY • High on the craggy shoulders of Mount Evans, above 11,500 feet where the spruce and fir no longer prevail, an exclamation is heard. Observes one in a group visiting from ...

The past two decades have been hard on the West’s conifer forests, which have seen wave after wave of bark beetle epidemics turning once green landscapes brown and gray. The world’s most long-lived ...

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