The arid mountain forest of eastern California holds an ancient secret aged beyond that of even the pyramids of Giza and the ancient city of Babylon. The Methuselah tree, hidden in the forests of ...

Backcountry Press has announced the release of “California Trees,” a field guide by botanists and naturalists Matt Ritter and Michael Kauffmann. This book is more than just an identification manual — ...

Environmentalist Aaron Echols, conservation chair of the California Native Plant Society's Riverside/San Bernardino chapter, walks near the Palmer's oak. The tree is estimated to be 13,000 to 18,000 ...

GETTING READY FOR THAT TO CHANGE. PEACEFUL SOUNDS THAT COME FROM THESE DENSE FORESTS, LANDSCAPES THAT TAKE UP A THIRD OF THE ENTIRE STATE. TREES ARE LONG LIVED SPECIES. MANY LIVE WELL OVER 100 YEARS, ...

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 ...

Californians watched in dismay this month as the York fire seared through Mojave National Preserve, igniting a delicate desert landscape that may never fully recover. The fire chewed through stands of ...

Ecologist Michael Kauffmann knows Dr. Seuss’s book “The Lorax” by heart. But he doesn’t identify, exactly, with the book’s namesake orange critter who, raging against the Truffala Tree-trashing ...