Picture this: towering pine trees dusted with snow, poconip (frozen fog) rolling in over alpine lakes, and mountain peaks ...

Ancient whitebark pine trees emerging from 5000-year-old ice patch in the Beartooth Mountains of Wyoming (photo credit: Daniel Stahle) Ancient whitebark pine trees emerging from 5000-year-old ice ...

Even this deep into winter, the trees are one of my favorite parts of our mountains. Stands of towering, majestic aspens, ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

Ironically, pine grosbeaks rarely nest in pine trees. Lichen ... further south and to lower elevations where mountain ash, crabapple, maple and winter staples are plentiful.

The whitebark pine is threatened specifically by development for winter recreation ... “These exceedingly beautiful trees are an icon of our western mountains and they need all the help they can get, ...