RSS Feed
New York times: Some bristlecone pines on Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. The renowned bristlecone Prometheus was felled there in 1964.
Nearly 50 years have passed since a glaciologist by the name of Donald R. Currey got his tree-borer stuck in a remote Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) about 10,750 feet up in the little-visited Humboldt National Forest of eastern Nevada. It would have been an unremarkable inconvenience had it not led to the death of what was shortly thereafter......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
In Ancient Pines, a Startling Shift in Tree Rings
Posted by New York times: Max Bearak on September 19th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation