The Bristlecone Book

High among the cold, windswept peaks of America’s mountain west, grow pine trees that are twisted and gnarled, hanging on to rocky, inhospitable slopes, yet living to the extraordinary age of almost 5,000-years old. These trees are bristlecone and foxtail pines. What are the trees’ secrets—why do they live to such an advanced age? How do they develop such interesting shapes? What does the future hold for these ancients? These questions and more are answered in a new book by Mountain Press Publis