Bristlecone pines can liberally spread their ... "in the persistent ability of a 4,000-year-old tree to shut up shop almost everywhere throughout its stem in a very dry year, and faithfully ...

The Discovery Trail loops north around a rocky knoll through a grove of bristlecone ... from the fact that Pine Alpha, the first tree identified as being over 4,000 years old, was discovered ...

It wasn't until after the tree was cut down that they realized it was an estimated 4,900 years old. Bristlecone pines are known to scientists as "extremeophiles" because they are slow-growing and ...