Visit this area of the White Mountains in California's Sierra Nevada region, where you can hike and see trees that predate ...

The bishop pine forest we see today naturally sprung back after that wildfire. Now, the forest is 80 years old, and the dying bishop pines are being replaced by oak and bay.

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.