including this 1500-year-old [bristlecone] tree that had succumbed. I’m no beetle expert, but it looked to me like possibly mountain pine beetle had infected it,” Kitchen said. “There were ...

The mountains (such as the highest ... and blazing sunshine, but some trees specialise in these conditions. Some, like the Scots pine, have become iconic; others, like the willows, are less ...

Ten thousand feet up in the White Mountains of central California ... article misidentified the species of tree shown. It was a single-leaf pinyon pine, not a bristlecone pine.

Pinus contorta is prolific throughout the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada and extends to southern California. It is a pine tree of the mountains and grows to an elevation of 11,000 feet.

No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine ... than almost any other tree, thriving in the rocky, meager soils near rugged mountain peaks.

The resulting outbreak painted expanses of green mountains reddish-orange and gray as the beetles killed countless pine trees across the region. Colorado’s popular recreation areas were hit ...

infestation by mountain pine beetles and a deadly fungus called blister rust — they're collectively killing this tree. Losing whitebark pine on the landscape does not mean just losing one type ...

Now the oldest known tree is another bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, named Methuselah. However, you can still find bristlecone pines in Nevada. Here's a look at the oldest ...

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 ...