The Methuselah Trail, located in Inyo National Forest near Big Pine, California, was recently named one of the best hikes in ...

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

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine, with many trees dating back around 4,000 years. The oldest tree is named Methuselah and it dates back nearly 5,000 years.

Wandering the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in Inyo County, where these conifers have eked out an existence for millenniums, she said, “gives you that sense of infinity.” ...

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

Ancient bristlecone pines slow forest thinning effort in Colorado as wildfire season nears Feds hobbled by NM disaster lag in climate resilience work ...

The West's ancient and resilient bristlecone pines have appeared immune to bark beetle infestations devastating conifer forests. That changed when bristlecones began dying in Utah's Wah Wah Mountains.

From tropical rainforests, often referred to as the lungs of the planet, to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California’s White Mountains, home to some of the oldest living organisms on ...

Equally astounding as the age of these living trees is the fact that dead bristlecone pine wood also offers scientific clues about past millennia earlier than any of the living ancients in the forest.

Less than 15 miles from the Silver Fire, the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest's trees are thousands of years old, including the storied Patriarch Tree.

A bristlecone pine is shown in the White Mountains of eastern California in the Inyo National Forest on Nov. 28, 2021. Bristlecone pines can live more than 5,000 years, and the locations of the ...

Ancient bristlecone pines slow forest thinning effort in Colorado as wildfire season nears Feds hobbled by NM disaster lag in climate resilience work ...