Posted on 06/29/2007 9:02:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
A buried treasure of trees
A Washington state man who always loved to dig in the dirt unearths a petrified forest, covered by lava 15 million years ago while still upright.
By Tomas Alex Tizon
Times Staff Writer
June 28, 2007
Yakima, Wash. Clyde Friend's life changed the moment his bulldozer hit the first tree on a hot summer afternoon in 2002 as he leveled a hill behind his workshop. Chips flew everywhere, a small explosion of brown and white shards.
He hopped off the dozer to investigate. There, embedded in the hill, was a mostly intact fossilized tree trunk standing upright in solid rock. "Well, that's different," he recalls thinking.
A heavy-machine operator for most of his working life, Friend was used to finding bits of petrified wood now and then. He'd never bumped into anything like this.
For the next several days, in the privacy of his remote 10-acre lot, Friend dug up the rest of his find by chipping away the surrounding rock. It turned out to be a petrified hickory tree, 18 feet tall and as big around as a cantaloupe.
He extracted it in pieces and put it in storage, thinking it could be worth something someday. Then he went back to leveling the hill until he hit the second tree. It was the same height as the first, but thicker. The third tree was identical, but the fourth took his breath away: 20 inches in diameter.
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No, you wouldn't. Just post smart Alec remarks on this thread three or four times, but debate....No way!
I'm glad it increased your faith. I'm afraid it took more for me. I believed but always felt there was much more to His Word than I was being taught. Learning about the things I wrote before truly helped me and I tell others in case someone else out there needs the same help.
Either way - we are both blessed to have faith in Him.
You weren't rude at all and I appreciate your reply.
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