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UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.