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 ...

For thousands of years, wind-whipped, twisted bristlecone pines have been clinging to existence on the arid, stony crests of eastern California’s White Mountains, in conditions inhospitable to most ...

Because this winter’s snow is taking its time to melt, any plant that provides us with a little greenery to look at is a welcome addition to the landscape right now. One plant that fills the bill is ...

BIG PINE, Calif. — The bristlecone pines loomed out of the mist like ghostly apparitions, their limbs reaching in all directions. These trees in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest are among the ...

BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Utah — The last thing I expected to see in this hoodoo wonderland was a couple of ancient trees perched at the top of the canyon. These trees are so old they have been ...

Check out some of the species that live in Nevada's Great Basin National Park, one of the least-visited and most unspoiled in ...

11:07 a.m. June 29, 2022: A previous version of this story misspelled Constance Millar’s first name. Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic ...

BIG PINE, Calif. • The bristlecone pines loomed out of the mist like ghostly apparitions, their limbs reaching in all directions. Walking among these ancients — the trees are the oldest living things ...

Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region of the western United States are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow-motion race up the mountaintop, and climate change is the ...

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