The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...
This ancient forest of whitebark pines thrived ... The trees revealed by the melting Rocky Mountain ice patch look "like trees that you would see up in a windswept area," McWethy said — missing ...
Cathy Whitlock co-authored the study on the ancient trees found in Wyoming ... melting ice has revealed old forests along the Coast Mountains. In Wyoming, Whitlock says there's more work ...
For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevation above ...