Normally this practice is the only way to avoid broken branches from heavy snow loads, but one species of pine tree easily withstands snow, ice, and wind without breaking: the limber pine (Pinus ...

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

So how does the bristlecone make it in a place so hostile to life that the only other tree that can survive there is the bristlecone-like limber pine? A place that in certain areas hosts but a few ...