AlertWest Only one small smoke plume could be seen Wednesday in the area burned by the 2-day-old Pine Fire near Pine Mountain. KTVZ Pine Fire SE of Pine Mountain was still putting up smoke Tuesday ...

A peak in the middle background is Needham Mountain, where another Jeffrey pine was observed at very high elevation, underlining that this is not simply an anomaly on Mount Kaweah. (Hugh Safford, UC ...

Any other driver would have rolled down the bumpy mountain path without a second thought about the large but scraggly pine tree on the south face of the mountain. Only a Band-Aid-shaped metal tag ...

The stumpy, drought-resistant tree grows ... nut pine, pinon pine, pinyon, Pinyon pine, two-leaf pinyon, two-needle pinyon. Pinyon is native to the southern Rocky Mountain region, predominantly ...

So it’s all part of the natural system.” A mountain pine beetle crawls on the bark of a pine tree. (Antonia Musso/provided) SEE ALSO: Mountain pine beetle populations down by 94 per cent in ...

Up ahead, the autumnal slopes of Cradle Mountain ... tree. “You could walk right past it and never know it was there — unless you know what you’re looking for,” says Anthony. The pencil ...

What is a Jeffrey pine doing above 11,500 feet?" The Jeffrey pine grows in upper montane areas throughout the Sierra Nevada and is the most common tree found ... seeds up the mountain from ...