Individual western larch can live 900 years, but ancient trees are extremely rare, Pass said. Most of the old-growth western larch was logged a century ago for its valuable timber.

The larch trees on the east side of the Cascades turn a brilliant gold in autumn and shed their soft needles. Western larch live for 300 to 500 years, and the oldest on record is 920 years.

Hiking on, I enter a stand of older larch trees that tower above me. The lowest branches on mature larches are often 50 to 75 feet above the ground. These trees are easily 150 feet tall.

Almost naked last week, the larch still held enough color to stand out in the crowd of evergreens. Clusters of green needle-shaped leaves emerged during spring like a feathery fleece on the tree ...

Out west, the Tamarisk is considered on par with the Siberian Elm or Tree-of-Heaven: a weed. What sets the larch apart, besides breathtaking fall color, is the needles.

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- German authorities chopped down dozens of russet-colored larch trees that had been planted to form a giant swastika in a forest of evergreen pines. The larches were ...

Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China -- the northernmost tree species on Earth -- are growing faster as a result of climate change. A new study of growth rings from Dahurian ...

He said in 20 to 25 years, the new tree should be fairly large. Erin Irish, an associate professor of biology at the UI, attended the planting of the new tree. Katie Goodale New trees are seen on the ...

For decades, in the German state of Brandenburg, a formation of larch trees grew unnoticed in the shape of a swastika. A hapless intern for a landscaping company first found the deciduous Nazi ...