Many of Tahoe’s sugar pines are stressed and dying. If you are a local or frequent visitor to the area, you may have noticed an increase in dead or dying pine trees in Carnelian Bay, Crystal Bay and ...

Along with “big tree hunters” Carl Casey and Martin Crawford, Taylor determined that the tree was the largest sugar pine by volume known to humans, with a volume of 5,761 cubic feet.

Sugar pines are the world’s largest pine tree. They can grow to more than 100 feet tall, and their cones can grow more than a foot long. Western white pines look similar but have smaller cones ...

The sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) can be identified by its huge cones, which can reach lengths of more than 20 inches and are about 4 to 6 inches wide. Sugar pines can grow as tall as 250 feet ...

The previous tree that held the record for largest pine was "5,450 cubic feet." This giant measured in at "5,761 cubic feet." Making it not only the largest sugar pine tree but also the largest ...

For their next project, the researchers are eyeing the sugar pine, a tree with 35 billion base pairs. The research was detailed this week in the journals Genetics and Genome Biology.

A landmark sugar pine tree in Yosemite Valley, the centuries-old namesake for Sugar Pine Bridge on the Merced River below Royal Arches and Half Dome, fell in October.

That includes the largest sugar pine in the world, which is also the largest known pine tree in the world. So I put together a list of three of my favorite trails that showcase this spellbinding ...

Now, Douglas fir, sugar pine, coastal redwood, and giant sequoia also have been sequenced. At first, sequencing was challenging because conifer tree genomes are 10 times larger than human genomes ...

To get involved with the Sugar Pine Foundation, mark your calendar with the following dates and locations. Please dress in layers and bring a full water bottle. Shovels, gloves and seedlings will ...