Scientist finds Jeffrey pine trees at record mountain heights, suggesting climate-driven shifts in Sierra Nevada.

Wildfires represent a threat to communities across the country, including those in Northwest Montana. Montana is one of two states where at least 50% of structures are at risk from wildfire, according ...

"On the Front Range, we deal a lot with Ponderosa Pine, and depending on where you are, Limber Pine and then some Lodgepole, then that's what they they use as a host species." Kelsey Johnson ...

This is Newberry Volcano—a colossal, yet often overlooked, geological marvel that sprawls across 1,200 square miles, making it the largest volcano in the Cascade Range. Despite its immense size ...

A Jeffrey pine tree growing in far eastern Tulare County is the highest in altitude tree ever recorded in California. The new ...

It was the sudden appearance of Silver Lake, stretching out like a mirror placed in the middle of emerald meadows, with the Teton Range providing a snow-capped ... traverse forests of lodgepole pine ...

At the lower parts of the range, dominant trees include big-cone Douglas fir and Coulter pine as well as canyon live oak and California bay. On higher slopes, lodgepole, limber, ponderosa, Jeffrey, ...

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 ...

Jeffrey pine trees have been found at elevations up to 12,657 ft in California's High Sierra, surpassing previous records and exceeding the range of traditional subalpine species.