First, scientists used a 150-year-old whitebark pine tree in Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest to sequence the first whitebark pine genome, mapping out 87% of the genetic material.

A tree sitter is stationed at the top of an old-growth ponderosa pine in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Poor Windy project area in Josephine County, Ore. A group of activists is fighting ...

Fewer surviving trees means fewer pine cones for humans to pick and plant. That's what happened in the Fremont-Winema National Forest during the Barry Point Fire in 2012, Kittler said.

Scientists hope the tree’s genome, all 25,362 genes within the whitebark pine’s 12 pair chromosomes, will help forest managers protect whitebark pines. It's a little like the DNA kits for ...