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Methuselah

TiggyPop · CC BY-SA 4.0

26% trees around it and 221 species recorded.

54Forestyas Score

Notable treeWildMountain forestBirds

  • trees within 3 km26%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded221
  • Altitude3,061 m

The forest around

26% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 26%Shrubland 36%Grassland 26%Bare ground 11%Trees 25%Shrubland 36%Grassland 32%Bare ground 6%Trees 51%Shrubland 32%Grassland 10%Bare ground 6%Trees 27%Shrubland 24%Grassland 29%Bare ground 20%26%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km26%
  • 1–3 km25%
  • 3–6 km51%
  • 6–10 km27%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees25%
  • Shrubland36%
  • Grassland32%
  • Bare ground6%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

221 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Great Basin bristlecone pine
Great Basin bristlecone pinePinus longaeva262 recordsDcrjsr · CC BY-SA 3.0
Fern Bush
Fern BushChamaebatiaria millefolium58 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
White Mountain buckwheat
White Mountain buckwheatEriogonum gracilipes39 recordsDean Wm. Taylor · CC BY 2.0
Pinyon beardtongue
Pinyon beardtonguePenstemon scapoides39 recordsJim Morefield from Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
Purple sage
Purple sageSalvia dorrii36 recordsUnknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mat rockspirea
Mat rockspireaPetrophytum caespitosum35 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Stemless mock goldenweed
Stemless mock goldenweedStenotus acaulis32 recordsJW Stockert · Public domain
Wax currant
Wax currantRibes cereum31 recordsStan Shebs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Yellow rabbitbrush
Yellow rabbitbrushChrysothamnus viscidiflorus29 recordsWallace Keck · Public domain
Wild blue flax
Wild blue flaxLinum lewisii24 recordsSkoch3 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Limber Pine
Limber PinePinus flexilis19 recordsdoug · CC BY 2.0
Curl-leaf mountain-mahoganyCercocarpus ledifolius32 records

Open records within 2 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

54out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 26%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 221Speciesrecorded more than once within 2 km
  • 3,061 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in May and in October.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan5°-5°53 mm
  2. Feb7°-4°42 mm
  3. Mar11°-2°31 mm
  4. Apr15°1°22 mm
  5. May21°6°16 mm
  6. Jun28°11°5 mm
  7. Jul32°16°10 mm
  8. Aug31°14°8 mm
  9. Sep26°10°5 mm
  10. Oct18°4°18 mm
  11. Nov11°-2°22 mm
  12. Dec5°-5°43 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Methuselah.

Bristlecone pine tree in Inyo County, California; oldest known living non-clonal organism

Methuselah is a notable tree in United States, 3,061 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 26% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

221 species have been recorded around it: 80 plants, 2 fungi, 130 birds and 9 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Great Basin bristlecone pine, Fern Bush and White Mountain buckwheat.

The best time to walk is in May and in October.

Methuselah Tree
TiggyPop · CC BY-SA 4.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Methuselah seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1named and notable trees within 6 kmMethuselah
  • 4picnic sites within 4 kmSchulman Grove Picnic Area and 3 more
  • 4viewpoints within 5 kmSierra View Vista Point and 3 more
  • 1visitor centres within 6 kmSchulman Grove Visitor Center
  • 2car parks within 3 km
  • 1campsites within 10 kmGrandview campground
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Methuselah.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas21 mountains within 25 km
Blanco Mountain9.0 kmCounty Line Hill9.7 kmBucks Peak10 kmCampito Mountain13 kmCrystal Peak14 kmBlack Mountain14 kmMount Nunn2,387 m · 20 kmLime Hill1,992 m · 25 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Ancient Bristlecone Pine overlooking the mountains - Flickr - daveynin
daveynin from United States · CC BY 2.0
Lonely, death bristlecone pine tree - Flickr - daveynin
daveynin from United States · CC BY 2.0
Fishmonger smiling
Wilfredor · CC0

Other forests nearby.

Methuselah

United States

  • 54Forestyas Score
  • 26%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 221Species

Inyo National Forest

United States · 53 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 58%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 178Species

See the guide

Sierra National Forest

United States · 88 km

  • 81Forestyas Score
  • 79%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 134Species

See the guide

General Grant

United States · 100 km

  • 82Forestyas Score
  • 92%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 191Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q590039) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species12,849 open records within 2 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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