Scientist finds Jeffrey pine trees at record mountain heights, suggesting climate-driven shifts in Sierra Nevada.

The Jeffrey pine grows in upper montane areas throughout the Sierra Nevada and is the most common tree found ... the highest Jeffrey pine on record and even higher than lodgepole, limber and foxtail ...

Here, in the rain shadow of the mighty Sierra Nevadas ... only other tree that can survive there is the bristlecone-like limber pine? A place that in certain areas hosts but a few forlorn clumps ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new ... in elevation than the highest Jeffrey pine on record and even higher than lodgepole, limber and foxtail pines.

The Jeffrey pine grows in upper montane areas throughout the Sierra Nevada and is the most ... pine on record and even higher than lodgepole, limber and foxtail pines. To date, none of the six ...