If you thought the ancient evergreens at California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park were old, the state's bristlecone pines ...

This mountain town only an hour from Denver, Colorado is a gorgeous gateway to many different trails, lakes, fishing spots, ...

“There were other trees that were hosting the mountain pine beetle and a few of the bristlecone pines have been sufficiently cross infected and succumbed.” Around this time in 2017, he ...

In California, Where Trees Are King, One Hardy Pine Has Survived for 4,800 Years In a harsh alpine desert, the Great Basin bristlecone pines abide amid climate change. Among them is the oldest ...

Mountain ski guides frequent the high alpine where whitebark pine grows. Two are using their time in the backcountry to ...

It is a pine tree of the mountains and grows to an elevation of 11,000 feet. White Oak (Quercus alba) Quercus alba can grow on the most fertile of bottomlands to the most sterile of mountain slopes.

Protecting trees from mountain pine beetle. Mountain pine beetles kill whitebark pines from within. The bugs swarm the tree, chew a network of paths inside its bark and lay their eggs.

Travelers can take a kayak on a trek through Australia's rainforests to find alpine royalty: the prized King Billy pine tree. The Dove Lake Boatshed is an iconic site at Cradle Mountain National ...

A 5900-year-old whitebark pine forest has been discovered due to the melting of alpine ice in the Rocky mountains. Scientists found more than 30 trees approximately 3100 metres above sea level ...

Will Powers/AP, File FILE – This July 20, 2007 photo shows a hillside stand of lodge pole pine trees, fronted by aspens inside the gate of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo., that has been ...

As you might be aware, El Paso County and much of Colorado is seeing an uptick in mountain pine beetle (MPB) activity. MPB is a native insect that usually attacks weaker trees as part of a natural ...