The Torrey Pine as we know is an ancient tree that sprouted and survived on a high bluff range formed above the Pacific Ocean ...

Safford, his team and this writer are in the Inyo National Forest in the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains, more than 11,000 ...

I used to be the person who stood at the window, looked at the yard and thought only how pretty it was. My husband took care of the lawn maintenance — partly because he enjoyed it, and partly because ...

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

The past two decades have been hard on the West’s conifer forests, which have seen wave after wave of bark beetle epidemics turning once green landscapes brown and gray. The world’s most long-lived ...

At around 10 p.m., firefighters were dispatched to U.S. Highway 190, just west of County Road 138, after a dead pine tree fell across the entire roadway.