A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

The Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is famous for its longevity. The oldest known living specimen, near Pikes Peak, is 2500 years old. Native to Colorado, Bristlecone pines grow in some of the ...

“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 ...

Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine and limber pine are both five-needled trees that are adapted to growing in rocky and windy environments. At a distance, they look like cartoon Christmas trees, ...

These include Rocky Mountain bristlecone pines (Pinus aristata), located in Colorado and northern New Mexico, and foxtail pines (Pinus balfouriana), which inhabit central and northern California.

They found 12 living Rocky Mountain bristlecone pines that were more than 1,600 years old and four that were more than 2,100 years old. CB-90-11 was the oldest identified, with a minimum age of 2,435.

A bristlecone pine tree on the trail to Telescope Peak, ... They exist at higher elevations than almost any other tree, thriving in the rocky, meager soils near rugged mountain peaks.

The list of at-risk species also includes ash, butternut, and bristlecone pine among other members of the five-needle white pine family. “I feel a sense of urgency. We can’t take a hundred years like ...