Wheeler Peak

The mountainous landscape comprises the forested slopes of the southern Snake Mountains; the highest point, Wheeler Peak (13,063 feet/3,982 meters), is covered with ice and snow even in summer.

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While many of the early bristlecone measurements were archived and can be retrieved from WDCP and I wish that Hughes would archive his updated bristlecone measurements, ironically the measurements from Wheeler Peak have never been archived.

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Curry, writing from the Department of Geography of the University of North Carolina, reported that, in 1963 and 1964, during studies of Little Ice Age glaciation and nivation in the mountains of southwestern U.S., a number of stands of bristlecone pine were encountered, including a previously unstudied stand at Wheeler Peak in east Nevada gazetteeer location: 38.9861N; Longitude: -114.312.

Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit 2006

Wheeler Peak is a really interesting place to visit.

Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit 2006

To facilitate compilation of a long-term tree-ring chronology for the Wheeler Peak area, one of the larger living bristlecone pines was sectioned.

Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit 2006

In conversations recorded before he died in 2004, Dr. Currey recalled that the particular bristlecone in question seemed extraordinarily old, giving him a hunch that it might help him date the glacial detritus in which it was located, high up on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in what is now Great Basin National Park.

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The Enchanted Circle is an 80 mile ride from Taos Pueblo around Wheeler Peak, through national forest land and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, across valley farmland, and through a number of small towns including Questa, Red River, Eagle Nest, and Angel Fire.

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Snow cover can be deep in Ecoregions 21a and 21b near Wheeler Peak, the state’s high point at 13,161 feet.

Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA) 2009

Max BearakSome bristlecone pines on Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.

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I’ve looked for the measurements from Wheeler Peak at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology.

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