What’s the secret to living 5,000 years? Researchers just sequenced the ancient #bristlecone pine. By decoding its DNA, we’re learning how nature handles aging and resilience in the face of climate change.
Closeup photo of bristlecone pine wood that appears in something of the aspect of a gargoyle. Two whorls of grain around knots appear as glaring eyes, while a broken off protruding limb suggests teeth and extended pointy tongue. No foliage is present, nothing but bare weathered wood appears in the frame, rust-colored in many places, dull blue-gray in others.
#Wood gargoyle
#BlueSkyArtShow #bristlecone #greatbasin #tree
Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Inyo County CA
Ancient trees reaching for the #clouds
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#inyocounty #landscape #bluesky #monochrome
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #bishopca
#bristlecone #blueskyartshow #nikon
Bristlecone pine trees on the flank of Mt. Bross near Alma Colorado at an elevation of 11,700 feet. The image is rendered in black and white. The distant mountains have snow on them. The trees lean to the left (downslope) due to the prevailing wind. The name of this place is the Windy Ridge Bristlecone Scenic Area.
Bristlecone Pines, Colorado.
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Daily Haiku #272
Through millennia
Watching from the mountaintop
With bristling cones
#Haiku #Poetry #Bristlecone
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Trees Mount Gothic Colorado
Best day of the week!!
It’s Friday! 🥳🎉🥳
#forestfriday
#scape
#bristlecone
#treescape
#blackandwhite
#photographersofbluesky
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#coloradophotographer
At #least 1nce in #life #hike the #highaltitude of the #bristlecone & #limberpine #trees #bristleconepines #pines #pinetrees #forestfriday #forestscape #forest #art #filmphotography #film #ilford #bnwfilm #blackandwhitefilm #monochrome #grayscale #greatbasin #perspective #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin
Hiked the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest and touched all the trees, hoping I could absorb some of their wisdom and strength. If they can persist on this planet for thousands of years I guess I can hang in there the next 30-40.
#nature #hope #hiking #ancient #Bristlecone #persist
Landscape photo of bristlecone pine snags on a mountain ridge. Warm light falls on the pines and rocky foreground, while larger mountains loom blue in the distance. The sky has some blue clouds with smoke haze underneath, and the evening light is streaming from the left through the haze.
The essence of modern summer to me: access to the mountains, but it comes with heat and smoke haze.
#summer #blueskyartshow #greatbasin #landscapephotography #bristlecone
Landscape photo of young bristlecone pines catching the last warm rays of sunlight on a high mountain ridge. The short, scruffy bristlecones are growing out of a ridge almost entirely covered in pale limestone rocks. Behind is a mountain covered in this timber and rock outcrops, and the range stretches further off into blue distance under cloudless sky.
Bristlecone nursery in eastern Nevada. I hope these survived last year's fire.
#landscapephotography #nevada #greatbasin #bristlecone
That's me next to a #bristlecone #pine. These trees are among the oldest trees in the world, and at least one of them is about 4,800 years old. This is in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains in #Inyo County in California, east of the Sierra Nevada.
A Bristlecone pine shares the scene with a small cloud. A special place somewhere in Colorado.
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Ancient & Magnificent #bristlecone
The twisted trunk of a bristlecone pine rising out of rocky red soil on a mostly sunny day. The shape of the tree is like that of a wizard about to cast a spell. Canyonlands National Park, Moab, UT. 28 August 2022
spell
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Taking a break to remember better times.
#Colorado #MountEvans #Bristlecone
Bristlecone Pine, Mt Charleston Wilderness, Clark County.
#bristlecone #mtcharlestonwilderness
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#nevadalandscapes
#nevadalandscapephotography #wildnevada
#wilderness
Forest of the ancients. Bristlecone pine on Mt. Bross, Colorado 11,700 ft
#photography #photograph #colorado #adventure #more #b&w #bristlecone #tree #sky
Much appreciated. It certainly makes the journey easier to surround yourself with supporters who are on a similar journey. We heal best in community. Pictures here with my #bristlecone brothers.
#CSAsurvivorSky
Breaking News: @Google and @NASA agree to compare Google 72-qubit #quantum #Bristlecone chip against classical #supercomputers.
http://bit.ly/2PUjacy