and becomes quite furrowed in older trees. The eastern white pine adds a ring of side branches and a terminal shoot yearly with age. The cones of this species are up to eight inches long, have ...

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

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.