Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees are seen standing with young limber pines growing around them in the White Mountains in east of Bishop, Calif., in 2013.

Now just 15 to 30 years old and a few inches tall, limber pines can live 2,000 years. Dropping to one knee for a closer look at one of the spiky green trees, Smithers said, “It’s pretty amazing.

They selected areas where limber pine and Great Basin bristlecone overlap and aerial surveys indicated severe tree mortality. With Gray's help, they identified sites that were also accessible by foot.

It’s called rust because of the orange-colored blisters that form when the fungus breaks through a tree’s bark. Once there, no one can stop it.

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 ...

The bristlecone pine tree, famous for its wind-beaten, gnarly limbs and having the longest lifespan on Earth, is losing a race to the top of mountains throughout the Western United States, putting ...

The summit is reached by a steep 7-mile trail passing through the dying forest, where the bristlecones stand side by side with limber pines, another long-lived five-needle pine that looks almost ...

A few modest features distinguish the trunk of the limber pine standing among the trees near abandoned beaver ponds: a white, plastic pouch attached by a removable staple, a numerical metal tag ...

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, ...

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Limber pines are one of nine members of the five-needle pine group, also called white pine. It has the largest elevation range of pine trees in the Rocky Mountains. It can survive at 2,850 feet up ...