The Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is famous for its longevity. The oldest known living specimen, near Pikes Peak, is 2500 years old. Native to Colorado, Bristlecone pines grow in some of the state’s ...

Deep in the dark woods southwest of Fairplay, federal logging crews tasked with tree thinning to protect homeowners against megafires and restore forest health must watch out: make sure not to cut ...

While the aspens and cottonwoods have lost their leaves in preparation for winter, Colorado’s slopes still thrive with an abundance of evergreen conifers. One pine stands out in a few isolated ...

Late-summer storms hurl hail against the granite slope. The dawn air freezes all but six weeks of the year. There is no sign of soil. But on this lonely ridge, the oldest known tree in the Pikes Peak ...

510 BCE: Rising from a mountain’s shallow soil, a bristlecone pine begins its life. This Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is one of the oldest trees in the world, only outlived by its cousin the Great ...

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY • High on the craggy shoulders of Mount Evans, above 11,500 feet where the spruce and fir no longer prevail, an exclamation is heard. Observes one in a group visiting from ...

The premiere issue of the poetry journal Bristlecone defines itself by referring to a quote by the great Ezra Pound, from a letter to a young W.S. Merwin: “Read seeds, not twigs.” Combine that with ...

FRISCO – Jill Strandquist helps premature babies learn to nurse or drink from a bottle, control their hand-eye coordination and regulate their sleep. Through Bristlecone Health Services, she and other ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the status of pine beetle activity in the described area. Addtionally, the identity of the person featured in the accompanying photograph has been ...