Yes. At least four of the state's 14 Rocky Mountain bristlecone pines took root before Rome became an empire in 27 BCE.

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 ...

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 ...

Hop aboard this historic train ride up one of America's most famous mountains for panoramic views of the Continental Divide ...

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 ...

11:07 a.m. June 29, 2022: A previous version of this story misspelled Constance Millar’s first name. Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic ...

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 ...