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Rocky Mountain bristlecone grows up to 13,000 ft above sea level in Colorado.

Photo tour

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Aging Leaves
Bark Beetles
Bird Damaged Cones and Clarks Nutcracker
Bear Sign
Cone Collecting
Cone Cache
Cones and Seeds
Facilitation
Harsh Habitats
Tree Clusters
Rodent Damage
Seedlings
Strip Barking
Wildlife
Wind Sculpted Trees
Artistic Forms

Aging Leaves

Budscale scars, Anna SchoettleRocky Mountain bristlecone shoot, Anna Schoettle

Bark Beetles

Pitch tube on limber pine, Anna SchoettleBeetle attack on limber, Anna Schoettle

Bird Damaged Cones and Clarks Nutcracker

Clarks Nutcracker with pine seedBird damaged limber cones, Anna Schoettle Cluster of whitebark pine, Anna Schoettle

Bear Sign

Grizzly bear claw marks, Anna SchoettleGrizzly bear scat on whitebark pine, Anna Schoettle

Cone Collecting

Cone cage limber pine, Anna SchoettlePole pruning, Julie Kray

Cone Caches

Red squirrelcone cache

Cones and Seeds

Rocky Mountain bristlecone (L) Limber seeds (R), Anna SchoettleRocky Mountain bristlecone pine krummholz, Anna Schoettle

Facilitation

Whitebark pine in alpine, Anna SchoettleRocky Mountain bristlecone facilitation, Anna SchoettleLimber facilitation

Harsh Habitats

Limber pine, Anna SchoettleLimber pine, Anna Schoettle

Tree Clusters

Limber ponderosa pine cluster, Anna Schoettle

Rodent Damage

Rodent gnawing  rust, Anna SchoettleRodent gnawing rust, Anna Schoettle

Seedlings

Whitebark pine seedling, Anna SchoettleRocky Mountain bristlecone seedling, Anna SchoettleRocky Mountain bristlecone seedling, Sarah SchmeerLimber seedling, Sarah Schmeer

Strip Barking

Rocky Mountain bristlecone stripbark, Julie KrayGreat basin bristlecone stripbarkStripbark, early stages, Anna SchoettleStripbark, later stages, Anna Schoettle

Wildlife

Baby rabbits, Julie KrayMoose, Anna Schoettle

Wind Sculpted Trees

Wind sculpted, Julie KrayRocky Mountain bristlecone krummholz, Anna SchoettleRocky Mountain bristlecone wind sculpted, Scott LaursenRocky Mountain bristlecone krummholz, Anna Schoettle

Artistic Forms

Frosted bristlecone, Julie KrayRocky Mountain bristlecone roots, Sarah SchmeerBristlecone snag, Anna SchoettleBristlecone root, Anna Schoettle

Bristlecone in snow, Anna Schoettle

 


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