The oldest tree of the Earth (6 photos) Bashny.Net

Civilizations were born and died, flashed and went out of the revolution, rose in the sky "mushrooms" nuclear explosions, and on the slopes of Mount White Mountain in California all these thousands of years lived and lives pine - the oldest tree of the Earth. Know how it is to say, much that is instructive, perhaps, would be able to tell. But silent pine, and only its branches rustling in the wind.



National Park Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest (Forest of ancient pines durable) to get uneasy. It lies at the side
from the high tourist roads, quite high in the mountains and most of the year closed because of snow drifts. It is in this reserve are growing the most ancient trees of our planet. Their age is measured in thousands of years, and the oldest named Methuselah now 4772 years.



Methuselah himself discovered in 1953 a scientist Edmund Schulman, who five years later published an article about it in the magazine "National Geographic". Struck the pine world fame almost ruined the tree, as every visitor tried to take a souvenir piece of bark or branch. Wood suffered greatly over the years, yet access to it was open to all and it was a plaque certifying age.









photo by clancyloox

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