Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live more than 5,000 years, stand where young limber pine grow around them. Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated ...

FRESNO, Calif. — The bristlecone pine tree, famous for its wind-beaten, gnarly limbs and having the longest lifespan on Earth, is losing a race to the top of mountains throughout the Western United ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Limber pine (Pinus flexilis James) grows across a wider range of elevations than any other tree species in the central Rockies, from ∼1600 m ...

FRESNO, Calif. — The bristlecone pine tree, famous for its wind-beaten, gnarly limbs and having the longest lifespan on Earth, is losing a race to the top of mountains throughout the Western United ...

Tired of trimming every tree in your yard before a snow storm hits? Normally this practice is the only way to avoid broken branches from heavy snow loads, but one species of pine tree easily ...

A healthy limber pine seedling grown from trees that show a natural resistance to white pine blister rust was planted recently on Pole Mountain. If the trees do not become infected with the rust, ...

A series of isolated woodlands, composed largely of limber pine (Pinus flexilis), occupy an escarpment of the western Great Plains that extends from southeastern Wyoming into northeastern Colorado.

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 ...

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 – ...

In a time of relentless change, it’s soothing to contemplate deeply rooted, long-lived trees. But now our climate of uncertainty affects even Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, the species ...

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 ...

It’s called rust because of the orange-colored blisters that form when the fungus breaks through a tree’s bark. Once there, no one can stop it. White pine blister rust slowly and methodically kills a ...