B ig news, California. It’s been confirmed that you have a new record for the highest tree, discovered by happy accident at a ...

The highest recorded elevations of Jeffrey pines provide new evidence of a warming climate in the High Sierra. UC Davis ...

Safford, also a forest ecologist, said in a Thursday news release from the university. “I walk over, and it’s a Jeffrey pine! It made no sense. What is a Jeffrey pine doing above 11,500 feet?” Sign up ...

The Jeffrey pine grows in upper montane areas throughout the Sierra Nevada and is the most common tree found around Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes. It is not considered a traditional subalpine tree ...

A Jeffrey pine tree growing in far eastern Tulare County is the highest in altitude tree ever recorded in California. The new ...

Sandwiched between a lodgepole pine on the left and a foxtail pine on the right is the first Jeffrey pine tree UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed in Sept. 2024 on a hike along Mount Kaweah in ...

Jeffrey pine trees have been found at elevations up to 12,657 ft in California's High Sierra, surpassing previous records and exceeding the range of traditional subalpine species.

“I walk over, and it’s a Jeffrey pine! It made no sense. What is a Jeffrey pine doing above 11,500 feet?” The discovery, published in the scientific journal Madroño last month, not only set ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

Sandwiched between a lodgepole pine on the left and a foxtail pine on the right is the first Jeffrey pine tree UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford observed in September 2024 on a hike on the south ...