The Sierra Juniper - My favorite Sierra tree
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2018
- Another Sierra tree video to help you identify Sierra trees while you are out hiking. This is the Sierra Juniper / Juniper occidentalis - subspecies australis. They are solitary trees growing at elevations between 6,000 to 10,000 feet.
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What a beautiful tree! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for your video. I was struck by the character and beauty of the sierra junipers I encountered at Shakespeare Rock above Glenbrook, Lake Tahoe the other day. I ignorantly thought they might be bristlecone pines. I searched the internet for awhile trying to find out and eventually made it to your video which offered the most thorough information. I'm now a faithful member of the Sierra Juniper fan club! And grateful for your video.
They are beautiful and striking when old and snarled. Lots of amazing ones all along the middle elevations on the east side of the Sierra and Desolation.Easy to confuse with Bristlecones but grow in totally different areas. If bored check out my video on Bristlecones. Learning about trees has made my trips into the Sierra even more interesting and enjoyable.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing about these beautiful gems.
Absolutely, my favorite tree in the Sierras too. Thanks for the video!
Awesome channel! Nice meeting you yesterday on the trails!
Hi Erika. It was nice meeting you guys too! I had the summit of Ralston to myself. Keep on hiking!
Those are also my favorite trees
There are fantastic stands of Sierra Juniper on south facing slopes near Big Bear Lake just an hour and a half out of Los Angeles. They grow with Singleleaf Pinyon, Curlleaf Cercocarpus, Utah Juniper, and the occasional high elevation Joshua Tree in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. Onyx Peak and Sugarloaf Mountain, both near Big Bear, have great populations of charismatic large, old growth juniper trees! I absolutely treasure my romps in high elevation pinyon-juniper woodland!
Thanks for watching my tree videos. The Sierra Junipers are a rare tree in that they can adapt to the drier climates and also can live in the Sierra under 10 feet of snow in the winter. The harsh conditions are what make for some interesting forms which I love about them.
Your videos are awesome! I truly love seeing Sierra Junipers, and it is interesting that they are related to the cypress, sequoias, redwoods here in California.
One of my new favorite trees. Saw several on the way up to Valentine Lake in the Mammoth Lakes Basin.
Yes this video doesn't do them justice. Such an awesome tree!
Found a Sierra juniper on big bear mnt. On a south eastern hog back, if that's the correct term. (Onyx peak). About 7-8k elevation. The base of this tree is massive, it would probably take 4+ adults to put their arms around it. It's on a spot that is perpetually windy and some of the branches are twisted like cork screws. It must be several thousand years old.
Lovvvvvvvvved this video. More tree vids please!!!!
The only footage I have is on lodgepole pines so that one will be out soon. Probably won't be able to get others done until the spring but they are coming. Glad you like them. I enjoy talking about trees.
Well if I see them I'm taking home cuttings from them. you can't roll my juniper in between your hands cause you'll get poked by the needles.
The closest bushes i have of those trees are cuttings of grayish blue juniper and ones I've bought are sea green juniper similar to those tree's just bush type not tree. It wouldn't hurt to add a few of those cuttings to what i already have in the backyard
I'd take my bucket and cutters and take me a bunch of cuttings if they didn't mind
This got me looking at junipers very differently really amazing shapes but I want to know what the tree told you?
Sadly it's mostly screams about what man is doing to their habitat but there is lots of soothing conversations to be had once you become friends with the trees!
@@ApeMan I hear you and I think I think I am getting tune into this more and more. All I hear so far is plant more trees/friends :-) Even though the trees fight each other too sometimes.
@@ApeMan it's to far west of me but i would cut about 5 to 8 7inch pieces off a branch and bring them to the northwest so they can get use to zone 5/6 and then they'll be growing next to spikey juniper's and white cedars maybe some red pines if i find any
Hi Terry, is this a Juniper? From Sawmill Pass Trail. photos.app.goo.gl/KEGupZoVjirS7B3D3
Hi David - Another fantastic picture. Based on the high altitude of the sawmill trail ,and the size and color of that snag, I'm fairly certain that is a Foxtail Pine. It's one of the rarest of Sierra trees and grows nowhere else in the world besides it's range on the high very southern Sierra. These trees can only be enjoyed by backpackers so you are lucky to see them. It's harder to tell when they are dead but they get their foxtail name from the fact they keep their needles for many years, unlike most pines, to conserve energy to survive in their harsh environments. This gives their branches a "foxtail" appearance. They are a very close cousin to the bristlecone pine which employs this same technique. If you ever go over cottonwood pass you will se the largest concentration of these trees and they are the dominant species from Chicken Springs Lake until you reach Forester Pass on the JMT. Magnificent species of tree.