The massive, 3,300-square-foot family home holds court in the middle of a pine forest ... it was clad in dark wood. The black, timber structure sits high up near the tree canopies, giving off ...

It's the signature tree of the mountain ... Steve Hirst of the U.S. Forest Service, who leads tours through the area. The trees with black bark were called black jack pine; those with yellow ...

she exclaims, poking at a small black ... the next few trees in search of more traces. Pill-size holes pock their ashen trunks—a sign, along with the missing pine scent, of a forest reeling ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest ... The tree's bark is either dark or light grey and becomes checked with age. The sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana ...

Image A single-leaf pinyon pine in the Inyo National Forest. It’s not entirely clear why bristlecones live so long, but one key seems to be that the trees’ sluggish growth, expanding as little ...