The highest recorded elevations of Jeffrey pines provide new evidence of a warming climate in the High Sierra. UC Davis ...

B ig news, California. It’s been confirmed that you have a new record for the highest tree, discovered by happy accident at a ...

then a lodgepole pine—trees he expected to see at such high elevations. "Then I thought, 'What's that?'" said Safford, a forest ecologist in the UC Davis Department of Environmental Science and ...

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 September 2024 on a hike on the south ...

The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s forests, she realized, were more resilient than anyone had imagined. That resilience is a tribute to the evolutionary history of the lodgepole pine, a tree whose ...

Possible causes have focused primarily on climate change induced stress on the trees, rendering them more susceptible to attack ... The beetles can kill many species of pines, but the current outbreak ...

It’s native to western pine forests, especially lodgepole and ponderosa forests, where it normally lives in relatively small numbers, killing a tree or two here and there. It’s been normal too ...

As he walked along the trail, he admired a rare foxtail and then a lodgepole pine stretching ... than the highest Jeffrey pine on record. The first tree he encountered, which he estimated to ...

The 2013 floods gave state trees the water ... Mountain pine beetle, which creates the highly visible rust patches in hillsides crammed with lodgepole, grew to 5,600 acres of impact.