California’s iconic trees are so well appreciated that three national parks are named after them: Redwood, Sequoia and Joshua ...

The hike resulted in a new elevation record for the Jeffrey pine, now California's highest recorded tree. (Hugh Safford, UC Davis) Last September, at timberline along the south slopes of Mount Kaweah ...

The oldest living organisms on earth are North America's bristlecone pine trees ... fog essentially reduces the trees' loss of water through evaporation. Giant sequoia trees are conifers and ...

The downed trees, exacerbated by all of the pine trees killed by bark beetles, fueled winds that spread Thursday’s fire. By Friday, the wind had calmed and the fire’s spread slowed.

(He plans to go back to Sequoia National Park for further ... he said there are probably more trees, possibly both Jeffrey pine and other species, that are growing at even higher elevations ...

Brigham said only 40 sequoia trees have been killed so far as opposed to the hundreds of pine trees that were killed during the drought. “It was a huge relief to find that the tree was as ...

Scientists say they recently discovered about 40 sequoia trees that have died from beetle ... Bark beetles have ravaged pine and fir forests throughout the Western United States in recent years ...

Whitebark pine, or Pinus albicaulis ... MORE: How climate change is now threatening the survival of fire-adaptive sequoia trees Some initiatives from the Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan ...

The first tree sequenced was the loblolly pine, Neale said. Now, Douglas fir, sugar pine, coastal redwood, and giant sequoia also have been sequenced. At first, sequencing was challenging because ...

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.