Summit County forests are home to one of the oldest and longest-living trees in the world, the bristlecone pine. Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is a native conifer found in Colorado, New Mexico and ...

Think you're getting old? Take a trip to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, on the Nevada-California border near Bishop, Calif., where the oldest tree is nearly 5,000 years old. Makes you feel like ...

From Los Angeles, take Interstate 5 north to California 14 and head northeast to the town of Mojave, where you should fill your gas tank. At the north end of Mojave, Highway 14 makes a sharp turn to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, where some of the the world's oldest trees live, scientists are concerned about a possible ...

Long ago, before the discovery of the Eagle Valley and even before the rise of Egyptian pharaohs, a young seed drifted on the wind and landed in the Rocky Mountains. This young seed took hold of the ...

Touring the mountains offers a sense of timeless beauty, providing visitors a window into the land’s distant past. California’s peaks and valleys have changed little since gaining statehood in 1849 or ...

BISHOP, Calif. — 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 ...