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Bristlecone pines are now protected in a number of areas owned by the United States federal government, such as the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California and the Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
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?