If you live in an area that gets lots of snow and ice during the winter, you need to know about this hardy pine tree with a unique adaptation. House Digest Story by Kim W.S.

You’ll travel under the shade of pine trees and, in the right season, spot native wildflowers, including the funky red snow plant. To start, park at the Buckhorn Day Use area or the large ...

The discovery signifies a changing climate amid California's highest peaks. As snow melts earlier and air temperatures rise, Jeffrey pine seeds are germinating on land they previously found frozen ...

Pine tree branches sag under the weight of high moisture content snow near Cañon City Saturday morning. Bill Bayles shared his view of the dense, good-for-snowball-making snow that fell across ...

Mountain ski guides frequent the high alpine where whitebark pine grows. Two are using their time in the backcountry to ...

Pine Tree High School: Jade Saldana, ninth grade; Jaden Nelson, 10th grade; and Allison Garrison, 11th grade. “This contest provides students a creative way to engage while keeping Longview ...

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.

Longleaf pine was the dominant tree species in the Southeast when Europeans arrived in the New World. Its range covered more than 90 million acres from Virginia to Florida and then west to Texas.

Winter weather advisories were in effect for parts of northwest Washington on Monday, February 3, as the National Weather Service (NWS) warned of hazardous road conditions.The weather service said ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

On August 25, 2024, big tree hunters Michael Taylor, Carl Casey and Martin Crawford measured a massive sugar pine that they knew about in Yosemite National Park. The team calculated that it was ...

That is 1,860 feet higher in elevation than the highest Jeffrey pine on record and even higher than lodgepole, limber and foxtail pines. To date, none of the six traditional subalpine forest species ...