Great Basin bristlecone pine trees can live for 5,000 years or longer. Did you really think they’d let a few bugs get under their skin? A new study of the ancient trees, including some specimens high ...

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 ...

Pebble-size hail pelted Kurt Kuznicki's hard hat as he shoveled away rocks that someone had fashioned into a fire ring on Griffith Peak. It was Thursday near the 11,056-foot summit in Mount Charleston ...

Brian Smithers stands in front of a bristlecone pine tree. Credit: Christian Baker Brian Smithers, a researcher assistant professor at Montana State University, is standing in front a massive tree in ...

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 ...

These ancients were around when ancient Sumerians scratched their cuneiform on clay tablets, and they were standing when Alexander the Great swept across Asia. They bore witness to both the rise and ...

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 ...

Experience the wonder of ancient trees with this excerpt from the new book “In Search of the Old Ones” Anthony D. Fredericks The sky, resplendent as a shard of Navajo turquoise, highlighted the ...

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 ...

Reporting from the White Mountains, Calif. — — The White Mountains that straddle the California-Nevada border are known for their extreme environment. They get less than a foot of rain a year.

Lunceford on Landscaping.BY LU SNYDERNEILS LUNCEFORDEvergreen trees can be expensive. There’s only a limited number that will survive in Summit County – and not all of those will survive throughout – ...