Normally this practice is the only way to avoid broken branches from heavy snow loads, but one species of pine tree easily withstands snow, ice, and wind without breaking: the limber pine (Pinus ...

So how does the bristlecone make it in a place so hostile to life that the only other tree that can survive there is the bristlecone-like limber pine? A place that in certain areas hosts but a few ...

"On the Front Range, we deal a lot with Ponderosa Pine, and depending on where you are, Limber Pine and then some Lodgepole, then that's what they they use as a host species." Kelsey Johnson ...