The U.S. Forest Service is concerned about the overgrowth of pine trees in and around Big Bear and have devised a plan to thin out the forest. But environmental groups oppose the plan and want it ...

A sugar pine tree deep within Yosemite is the largest pine tree in the world, researchers found. ... “It’s usually the finest forest left, where these big trees grow,” he says.

Kat Shay, manager of the Big Bear Trails Program with the Southern California Mountains Foundation, examines a recently fallen tree on the Woodland Trail in Big Bear, CA, on Friday, August 26, 2022.

Resilience of the forest, not the trees. Gaman explained that it’s not because bishop pines are fragile. “There might be 40 generations of bishop pines in the life of one redwood tree ...

The Francis Marion National Forest has a goal to restore and maintain longleaf pine on 91,500 acres," wrote U.S. Forest Service ... You wind up with scattered big trees with a very diverse ...

Now, the forest is 80 years old, and the dying bishop pines are being replaced by oak and bay. Without another wildfire, this indigenous bishop pine forest — the largest natural bishop pine grove in ...