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A map of the White Mountains of California.
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Comparison of male and female cones
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signage-bristlecone longevity
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Bristlecone pine-Discovery Trail
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new female cone
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Bristlecone-male cones
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Mat Buckwheat-Eriogonum caespitosum
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Bristlecone-Discovery Trail
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Clokey's Blue Sage-Salvia dorrii
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Female+Male Cones- foxtail arrangement of Leave
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"Ancient Warrier"
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Wood that Resists Fire,Insects,+ Rot
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How old am I?
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Guess my age!!!
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Alive and Healthy
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Check me out!
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Clark's Nutcracker- caches Bristlecone seeds
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Cushion Phlox-Phlox condensata
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Dead But Not Down!
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Dead But Not Down!
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Patriarch Grove- White Mts., Ca-11,000'+
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Typical Tundra Plants
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Lemmon's Goldenflower-Hymenoxys Lemmonii
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Alpine Lousewort-Pediculir sudetica
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Clokey's daisy-Erigeron clokeyi
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This Log Will remain for thousands of Years.
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Weathered Art Work!!
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Still Crazy After All These Years!
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Raspberry Buckwheat-Erigonum gracilipes
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"Solitary Man"
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Mountain Beauty
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"We like slope + dolomitic soils"
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The Old and the New
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"Look at all my grandchildren"
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Bluebird on my Shoulder
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"My leaves will stay on for 22 years"
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Many Generations
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" I'm the largest bristlecone known to man"
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One inch (diameter) of wood repsents 100 years growth
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WOW!!!!!!
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"I'm dense and resist rotting!"
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A Tunnel of Bristlecones"
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Methuselah Walk at Schulman Grove
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What a View!!!-Methuselah Walk
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Clokey's Paintbrush-Castilleja linearifolis
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Clokey's Blue Sage- Salvia dorrii
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Methuselah Walk
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How did this happen?????
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Nice!!!
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The "Old Battleship"
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Extremely Spiritual
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Raspberry Buckwheat Eriogonum gracilipes
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Bristlecone "statue"
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Mariposa Lily
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Penstemon humirilis
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