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Yes.. There are forests of the bristlecones. Most are hundreds and thousands of years old. The one that guy felled just happened to be the oldest of the group.
by timmaah 10y ago
Yes.. There are forests of the bristlecones. Most are hundreds and thousands of years old. The one that guy felled just happened to be the oldest of the group.
- Someone 10y agoHow would we know? AFAIK, we don't have ways to determine the age of a tree, other than counting rings. As for accidents with trees, the Ténéré tree (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ténéré_Tree https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ténéré_Tree), an acacia tree that was standing alone in the middle of the Sahara, is worth mentioning.
- smhenderson 10y agoHow would we know? In the story linked above they didn't know for sure, they just knew it was the oldest they had found yet. From that article: Now, Currey almost certainly didn’t fell the oldest tree ever. There are forests in the White Mountains, and elsewhere, where trees currently standing are probably far older than his Prometheus tree. We just don’t know about them. And then beneath that an update proving that he hadn't knocked down the oldest tree after all... Update February 10, 2016: Since this article was written, an older tree was identified in the White Mountains, California. The tree is also a bristlecone pine and is thought to be over 5,000 years old.
- macintux 10y agoThanks, I'd never encountered the story of the Ténéré tree.
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