Lone Bristlecone
by Alan Socolik
Title
Lone Bristlecone
Artist
Alan Socolik
Medium
Photograph
Description
This gnarly, old lone bristlecone pine was found while hiking in the Mt. Charleston area, near Las Vegas, NV. I love the brown pine isolated against the vivid, clear blue sky - it makes the photograph so dramatic! I frequently hike in the Mt. Charleston area, usually in the summer. In winter it is too cold and snowy to be hiking outdoors there. This area is classified a wilderness area and contains the old ruins of many ancient and some current airplane crashes. The rural scenery provided by nature allows me to produce some amazing wall art photography.
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If you could imagine a living tree as old as the pyramids of Egypt, what do think it would look like? It would look like bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, the oldest known tree species in the world. The bristlecone pine only lives in scattered arid mountain regions of six western states of America, but the oldest are found in the Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California. There the pines exist in an exposed, windswept, harsh environment, free of competition from other plants and the ravages of insects and disease. The oldest bristlecones usually grow at elevations of 10,000 to 11,000 feet.
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The bristlecone pine is a multi-trunk tree, gnarled and twisted by the elements. Much of the pine is dead wood. Wind whipped sand and ice scour the dead wood smooth and beautiful. As a survival strategy much of the bark and tissue dies back after the tree is damaged by fire, drought, or storms. This reduces the nutrients the tree has to supply the tissue and balances the results of the damage. The remaining parts are very healthy. A 10 inch strip of bark can sustain a large crown. This bark is red-brown in color and grooved with thick, irregular ridges.
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Mount Charleston, officially named Charleston Peak, at 11,916 feet (3,632 m), is the highest of the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada and the state's eighth highest mountain peak. It is about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of Las Vegas and is within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, the Mount Charleston Wilderness and the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area. Well separated from higher peaks by large, low basins, it is the most topographically prominent peak in the state, and the eighth most prominent peak in the contiguous United States.
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Mount Charleston is a year-round getaway for Las Vegas' residents and visitors, with a number of hiking trails and a modest ski area. The mountain, which is snow-capped more than half the year, can be seen from parts of the Las Vegas Strip when looking toward the west. Mount Charleston has nearly 200 camp sites and over 150 picnic areas, some of which are RV accessible.
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The eponymous village of Mount Charleston lies at its base to the east.
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The state of Nevada issues license plates with the caption "Mt. Charleston" and an image of the peak in the background. Sales of the plate support the natural environment of the Mount Charleston area through grants administered by the Nevada Division of State Lands.
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Thanks for viewing our images.
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Some of the text above copied/paraphrased from wikipedia.org and ww.blueplanetbiomes.org.
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FEATURED PHOTO, Fine Art America ABC Group - T - TREE, 12/24/2012
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