The highest recorded elevations of Jeffrey pines provide new evidence of a warming climate in the High Sierra. UC Davis ...

Big news, California. It’s been confirmed that you have a new record for the highest tree, discovered by happy accident at a ...

The Sawlog fire near Wise River remained at 1,500 acres early Monday, with 65 personnel at the scene, including eight ...

Two helicopters continued to be utilized, along with three water tanks. At present, the blaze is burning mainly in sagebrush ...

The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak is mainly in lodgepole pine. Mitton and Ferrenberg’s primary beetle study site is at an elevation of 10,000 feet at the Mountain ...

As he walked along the trail, he admired a rare foxtail and then a lodgepole pine stretching toward the sky from the south slopes of Mount Kaweah. “Then I thought, ‘What’s that?’” ...

Sandwiched between a lodgepole pine on the left and a foxtail pine on the right is the first Jeffrey pine tree UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed in September 2024 on a hike on the south ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...

"This is a typical bug-kill, blow-down mess that should have been harvested 20 years ago," says Mark Morgan as he surveys a tract of lodgepole pine on a slope of national forest land west of Fort ...