On August 25, 2024, big tree hunters Michael Taylor, Carl Casey and Martin Crawford measured a massive sugar pine that they knew about in Yosemite National Park. The team calculated that it was not ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The Sugar Pine Foundation is a small South Lake Tahoe-based nonprofit that has been dedicated to saving the sugar pines of the region by planting thousands of seedlings in ...

A landmark sugar pine tree in Yosemite Valley, the centuries-old namesake for Sugar Pine Bridge on the Merced River below Royal Arches and Half Dome, fell in October. The old tree stood several yards ...

A tree is planted near the Black Oak Campground area east of Georgetown in April 2016. In 2014, the King Fire tore through nearly 98,000 acres of El Dorado and Placer counties. As part of a ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A big tree hunter who has been charting some of the largest trees in the West for more than a decade has added three in the Sierra Nevada to the list of tallest sugar pines ...

A thick blanket of snow covers the Tahoe Basin, its grasses and trees dormant as they wait for spring. But tucked in an office on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe, Sugar Pine Foundation Executive ...

A big-tree hunter who has been charting some of the largest trees in the West for more than a decade has added three in the Sierra Nevada mountains to the list of tallest sugar pines known to exist in ...

I’m standing in a stretch of woods. The trunks of towering trees are charred black and some of the lowest hanging pine needles are singed a burnt orange. Light streams through an open canopy. A ...