U.S. News Insider Tip: Gaia Riverlodge is an eco-resort close to all the stunning attractions in Mountain Pine Ridge ... The area is peppered with pine trees, a stark contrast with the palm ...

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.

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 ...

It is increasingly threatened by climate change, which is leading to increased fires and mountain pine beetle outbreaks ... bears and many other species. The trees also slow snowmelt, helping to ...