Earth's oldest living inhabitant "Methuselah" at 4,767 years, has lived more than a millennium longer than any other tree. Discover how these trees were found and where they live. Learn of their unique strategies for survival. The focus will be on the White-Inyo mountain range of California. by Dr. Edmund Schulman westernmost home to the ancient ones characteristics of the bristlecone dating through tree-ring growth of Wheeler Peak download jpeg images in the White Mountains to related Web sites of the bristlecone pine send email, comment on this site search the bristlecone site on keywords
			The Bristlecone site has achieved several awards. View the traffic on this site. All images and text created and copyrighted ©1995-2005 by Leonard Miller unless otherwise noted - All rights reserved. Additional information supplied by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research - University of Arizona, Tucson