The Patriarch Grove has many beautiful specimen of healthy bristlecones.
Photo by Reiner Stenzel.
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Some slopes are littered with dead trees. The background mountains are in Nevada.
Photo by Reiner Stenzel.
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The hill has young, mature and dead bristlecone trees. It can take 1000 years before a dead tree collapses.
Photo by Reiner Stenzel.
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