Pine trees (genus Pinus) can survive for centuries. Some species of these evergreens can live for up to a thousand years. In the White Mountains of eastern California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine ...

In August of this year, three researchers made a stunning discovery: The world’s largest sugar pine, by volume, was in Yosemite National Park. The discovery marked the end of a four-decade journey, ...

The Eastern white pine has great significance to wildlife. Numerous species of songbirds and small mammals feed on white pine seeds, while snowshoe hares and various deer graze on the needles. The ...

It starts with the cones. They’re usually gathered in the wild, from whitebark pine trees several thousand feet above sea level somewhere in the West. The cones get shipped to the U.S. Forest ...