Tucked away in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains sits Mammoth Lakes, a slice of alpine paradise that feels worlds away from ...

Visit this area of the White Mountains in California's Sierra Nevada region, where you can hike and see trees that predate ...

Some national parks, like Sequoia and Redwood, are known for their ancient trees. But the world's oldest tree was from ...

Methuselah / bristlecone pine / 4,850 years / White Mountains, California Alerce milenario or Gran Abuelo / alerce / 3,622 years / Alerce Costero National Park, Chile ...

Until 2013, Methuselah, an ancient bristlecone pine was the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Methuselah was 4,789 years old when examined in 1957, with an estimated seeding date of 2833 BC.

Bristlecone pines: Lessons from the oldest living trees In the rugged White Mountains of California, the ancient bristlecone pine forest is home to the oldest trees on earth.

The species that feed off the pines debilitate the trees, making them more prone to flames. Mountain pine beetle populations erupted in the 1990s and early 2000s in Colorado.

The species that feed off the pines debilitate the trees, making them more prone to flames. Mountain pine beetle populations erupted in the 1990s and early 2000s in Colorado.

Bristlecone pines in the western U.S. have been alive for nearly 5,000 years, but an upstart Patagonian cypress challenges that record. This 1,400-year-old bristlecone pine on Mount Washington in ...

I had come to the White Mountains of eastern California, specifically the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, to seek counsel with some of the oldest living beings on the planet.

Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, ≥4,900 years Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains in California. François Gohier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ...

The long shadows of mortality have swept across the lonely sagebrush flats of California’s White Mountains, claiming the life of a wild and elusive legend.For three decades a mustang named Ca… ...