[Red Badger]

TIMBERRRRRRRRR!.........OOPS!...............

[SaveFerris]

BRILLIANT!!

[neverevergiveup]

Survives almost 5000 years, only to get cut down by a graduate student.

[Charles Martel]

But when it came to this particular tree, Currey ran into a problem. In a 2001 NOVA documentary, the researcher said that it was particularly tricky to sample with the usual method. “The normal approach to coring the tree wasn't working because the largest available increment bores were too small to core even from several angles,” Currey explained.

Wow, nobody thought to contact the tool manufacturer about building a custom length piece for this task? Idiots.

[Racketeer]

Did it sprout new life after being cut? If so, it is still the oldest.

[FrozenAssets]

What an s$$hole 4900years old.

[ansel12]

They probably wouldn’t want to trigger something that wouldn’t be good for old trees, but think of the thousands of souvenirs that could have been sold from that tree, from 1” thick slices of the trunk, to small bristles or twigs embedded in plastic globes.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Currey had already suspected that Prometheus was over 4,000 years old" -- but he cut it down anyway??!!

It's like these guys 130 years ago cutting down the Giant Sequoias in California.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Bump.

[frank ballenger]

“You must be really proud of yourself.”
-—Dean Wormer.

[frank ballenger]

So called Native Americans in several tribes believe trees are inhabited by spirits.

Tree spirit 👻: “Okay, punk. See how you like going into a woodchipper slowly, feet first.”

[Inyo-Mono]

I have visited the Methuselah tree in the Bristlecone Pine Forest that sits at 11,000 feet in elevation in the White Mountains above Bishop, California. Years ago, they removed its location from maps so it is no longer easy to find out of fear of people cutting souvenirs from the tree and killing it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Forest Service is a bunch of idiots who have managed to burn down a half a million acres of New Mexico in the last decade.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There are Alligator Junipers on the south slopes of the Sandia Mountains that have to be over 1000 years old.

Then there’s the Medallion Trees

https://www.newmexicomagazine.org/blog/post/sandia-mountains-medallion-trees-mystery/

[Organic Panic]

I grew up in the sierra Nevadas (Tahoe) I loved visiting those trees when we would drive down to visit the family in SoCal. The drive is not for the feint of heart. I loved visiting those the high desert trees. If I am not mistaken they are the oldest living things on earth.

[Scrambler Bob]

So, when God created the first Bristlecone Pine, how many rings did it have?

[Jim W N]

Prometheus before it was cut down.