HUANGSHAN, China — As temperatures neared their midday peak, Hu Xiaosong was doing his regular patrol, at an altitude of more than 5,500 feet, to protect a 1,000-year-old pine tree that he says is ...
When it comes to old trees, the Western U.S. can’t be beat. There are bristlcone pines in the Great Basin over 4,000 years old, giant sequoias that have survived since 1,000 B.C. and coast redwoods ...