At the end of September, while descending to the North Fork of North Creek from the south ridge of the canyon, a colleague noticed the telltale bottle brush branching habit of a bristlecone pine on a steep north-facing ledge. It was the first time, to my knowledge, that Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) has been identified in the Tushar Range of central Utah. I subsequently returned to the area last week to confirm the presence of several small groves of GBBP on five sub-ridges of the main ridge separating the North Fork of North Creek from the South Fork. A botanical first.
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