The great Kano School, which dominated official Japanese painting for 350 years, was in its golden period in 1646, when Kano Sansetsu painted this fantastically gnarled and spiky old plum tree for ...

The gnarled bristlecone pines that have taken root high atop the remote, rocky slopes of California's White Mountains are the longest-lived individual trees on the planet – and they have secrets ...

Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow-motion race up the mountaintop, and climate change is the starting gun, according to a ...

Today's Take 5 includes an elk under the moon and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest. ... Top reader photos: Gnarled tree, elk in moonlight, more. Mary Tablante. USATODAY.

In California, Where Trees Are King, One Hardy Pine Has Survived for 4,800 Years. ... groves of gnarled, majestic Great Basin bristlecone pines endure, some for nearly 5,000 years.

I n the remote reaches of California’s White Mountains, a gnarled pine tree has endured for thousands of years, defying time and the elements in near silence. Revered for its age and mystery ...

BAILEY, Colo. -- Rooted on a former Ute encampment in the foothills of the Front Range, the piney crown of a long-lived ponderosa pine pokes nearly 100 feet into the sky. Its trunk, gnarled and ...

Earth’s oldest, knotted and scarred pine trees are a boon for forest life. Old growth trees continue to decline around the world (SN: 6/18/18). In Europe, the remaining patches of forest with ...