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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Discovery Trail at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains in Inyo County, Calif., seen on Oct. 13. (Paul Thornton / Los Angeles Times) While every responsible citizen was ...

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 ...

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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