The mountains (such as the highest peaks in Scotland) are a tough place to live, exposed to sudden downpours, scouring wind, and blazing sunshine, but some trees specialise in these conditions ...

Granite Mountain juniper tree location. A half-mile in on Trail 39, the route crosses a major sandy drainage. ... Words, photos and statistics are inadequate tools for describing the twisted giant.

(Image credit: Linda & Dr. Dick Buscher) Quaking aspen are members of the willow family, Salicaceae. In the western mountains of the United States quaking aspen grow best at the 5,000- to 12,000 ...

Apparently in one Red Mountain neighborhood, the way you work things out with neighbors who don’t want the trees in front of their homes cut down is, well, you do it anyway. Four months ago, the ...

The heartwood of quaking aspen was once considered to be worthless by loggers. The tree even had the nickname "weed tree" in some parts of the mountains. But the modern lumbering industry now sees qua ...