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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 167815" data-attributes="member: 9521">Yes, it's very much alive. Nearly all the Bristlecone pines trees look like that. One side will be woodend like that while the other side will have a few branches with needles on it. It's a really amazing organism with life spans as long at 5,000 yrs. I spent a few days photographing these trees at Grand Basin Nat Park and got into so much that I then drove to White Mountain to photograph the other half of this grove, a good 400 miles away. It's an awesome thing to sit down and visit what may well be the oldest living organism on this planet. And what made the trip even nicer was that very few people were at either place, especially the White Mountains and I had a lot of solitude while visiting these old folks.</blockquote>