In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

At sunset, their silhouettes create a scene that belongs on a gallery wall – technology and nature finding unexpected harmony. Tehachapi’s Mountain Festival transforms the town each August into a ...

Ohio’s hidden treasures don’t get much more hidden than Tar Hollow State Park, a 604-acre oasis of tranquility nestled in the rolling hills near Laurelville. While everyone’s rushing to Hocking Hills ...

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

Together, the results illustrate how trees can “remember” times of abundance as well as scarcity. The latter, as illustrated by the spruce study, bodes well for trees’ ability to cope with a ...

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 Sept. 2024 on a hike along Mount Kaweah in ...

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.

Snow levels could drop down as low as 3,000 feet by late Thursday into Friday morning, bringing fresh powder to areas as low as Pine Valley and even stretches of Interstate 8. Up to 8 inches of ...

On Feb 20, the snow depth on the mountain reached 20 centimeters. Before the heavy snowfall, Hu and the emergency protection team had set up support frames in advance to provide physical support ...

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 ...

Today, the whitebark pine is considered “ threatened ” under the Endangered Species Act. These trees face several stressors, including rising temperatures, drought and wildfires.