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 ...

The sugar pine - the tallest pine tree in North America, which grows needles in bundles of five and produces large, long pine cones - is native to Tahoe.

These 10,000 sugar pine seedlings grew from seeds Maloney and her team collected from 100 of the surviving sugar pines. Over the next year, these young trees will be replanted around Lake Tahoe ...

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 ...

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.

Tree hunters Michael W. Taylor, center, poses in Yosemite National Park in front of the second tallest sugar pine tree on record. Taylor, a big-tree hunter who has been charting some of the ...

The ponderosa pine had taken root decades before the Revolutionary War, making a stately stand on this western Sierra Nevada slope for some 300 years, Nate Stephenson figures.

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.

SUGAR PINE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Trees are once again falling in the Sugar Pine area. But unlike the timber felled here a century ago, these trees aren't headed for the lumber mills.

The sign at the tree says 265 feet. The world's tallest sugar pine had been 269.2 feet, but that tree in California's Yosemite National Park died about five years ago.

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 ...