Using carbon dating, Montana State University researchers found the clutch of 30 whitebark pine trees were between 5,440 and ...

Scientists discovered a hidden stand of whitebark pines on Wyoming's Beartooth Plateau, 180 meters above the tree line at 3,100 meters elevation.

Researchers from Montana State University discovered a 10,000-year-old ancient forest that holds valuable information about ...

Ancient whitebark pine trees emerging from 5000-year-old ice patch in the Beartooth Mountains of Wyoming (photo credit: Daniel Stahle) Ancient whitebark pine trees emerging from 5000-year-old ice ...

Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a "time capsule" into the past ...

Flagg Mountain is the southernmost peak over 1,000 feet in the Appalachian Mountain range, which stretches from Alabama to ...

Over the past decade the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendrocthonus ponderosae) has killed millions of pine trees from New Mexico to the Yukon Territory, as a result of an unprecedented explosion in their ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic ...

From valley bottoms all the way to the tree line, nearly every single pine has been killed by an enemy smaller than a thumbtack: the mountain pine beetle. Tour British Columbia, and the scale of ...