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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.
How can it and its kind survive, much less thrive, in conditions that would strike fear into the phloem of virtually all other plants? After decades of intense study, inaugurated in the 1950s by the legendary dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman, scientists are starting to get a grip on what makes bristlecone pines so Methuselah-like.