The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...

A new WorldAtlas ranking highlights eight overlooked Nevada towns praised for history, culture, and access to parks and off-the-beaten-path sites.

Now known as Prometheus, the doomed tree was a Great Basin bristlecone pine located on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada. When the deed was done, Currey brought a sample back to his hotel room.

Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically scanning ...

Bristlecone pine trees thrive at a high elevation ... (Related: 8 authentic ways to truly experience Nevada.) Basque cuisine: In the mid-1800s during the Gold Rush, immigrants from Basque ...

Firefighters in Central California were working Tuesday to contain a wildfire near the Nevada border threatening ... the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest contains trees that are more than 4,000 ...

Nevada and Utah. Wandering the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in Inyo County, where these conifers have eked out an existence for millenniums, she said, “gives you that sense of infinity.” ...

Moriah in Nevada’s Snake Range ... “There’s a lot of limber pine dying, but there’s not a single bristlecone attacked,” Bentz said. Loading… And where bristlecone are dying, it ...

Firefighters in central California were working Tuesday to contain a wildfire near the Nevada border threatening ... the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest contains trees that are more than 4,000 ...