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The Great Basin Bristlecone Pines, or Pinus longaeva, is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States.
So how does the bristlecone make it in a place so hostile to life that the only other tree that can survive there is the bristlecone-like limber pine? A place that in certain areas hosts but a few forlorn clumps of that symbol of Western fortitude, the sagebrush, and in others looks like the rocky, lifeless surface of Mars?