Lake Gregory Self-Guided Walking Tour
Native Pines, Drought & the Bark Beetle
The towering Ponderosa Pines, Jeffrey Pines, and reddish-barked Incense Cedars overhead survived a brutal 2002–2004 drought that left millions of weakened pines to the native bark beetle, feeding the 2003 Old Fire that threatened Crestline.
Crestline, California