"I planted it."
The original article from MSNBC couldn't be posted, it is linked here though.
GGG Ping.
6.5 feet tall and 8 inches wide and they want us to believe it is 8000 years old? Right, cut the sucker in half and ocunt the rings. Probably closer to eight eyars old.
Pine makes some good wood for furniture and veneer. Maybe someone should chop it down. What a harvest!!
As an citizens of California, I demand a recount.
"I planted it."
“And the seedlings. They never write. They never call. Hey!, you seedlings, get off my copse!”
Did they clear cut it and count the rings?
Impossible. I have it on good authority that the world is only 5,000 years old.
There’s no way. A six foot spruce? In northern Sweden? That would put it close to the polar circle.
I heard there’s an 8,000 year old Spotted Owl living in it.
Swedish spruce may be world’s oldest living tree
Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:01am EDT
By Niklas Pollard
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Scientists have found a cluster of spruces in the mountains in western Sweden which, at an age of 8,000 years, may be the world’s oldest living trees.
The hardy Norway spruces were found perched high on a mountain side where they have remained safe from recent dangers such as logging, but exposed to the harsh weather conditions of the mountain range that separates Norway and Sweden.
Carbon dating of the trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami, Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8,000 years ago, making it the world’s oldest known living tree, Umea University Professor Leif Kullman said.
California’s “Methuselah” tree, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, is often cited as the world’s oldest living tree with a recorded age of between 4,500 and 5,000 years.
Two other spruces, also found in the course of climate change studies in the Swedish county of Dalarna, were shown to be 4,800 and 5,500 years old.
“These were the first woods that grew after the Ice Age,” said Lars Hedlund, responsible for environmental surveys in the county of Dalarna and collaborator in climate studies there.
“That means that when you speak of climate change today, you can in these (trees) see pretty much every single climate change that has occurred.”
Although a single tree trunk can become at most about 600 years old, the spruces had survived by pushing out another trunk as soon as the old one died, Professor Kullman said.
Rising temperatures in the area in recent years had allowed the spruces to grow rapidly, making them easier to find in the rugged terrain, he added.
“For quite some time they have endured as bushes maybe 1/2 meter tall,” he said.
“But over the past few decades we have seen a much warmer climate, which has meant that they have popped up like mushrooms in the soil.”
(Reporting by Niklas Pollard; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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It’s hard to believe that that tiny little tree is older than some of those huge redwoods and sequoias.
Will it be gettin' any older?
So this guy is walking in the woods and hears voices arguing,
“Son of a birch” and “Son of a beech”.
He comes up to two trees that are arguing about what type a third tree is. He looks at the third tree as says, “I don’t know if it’s birch or beech, but it’s mother was a fine piece of ash”.
(ok. I’ll go away now)
May I suggest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvQ2JF-glvw
Will this be the place of worship for algore and his followers?
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A møøse bit my spruce.
This is a Satan tree. The Earth is only 6000 years old. The fact that they are used as Christmas trees only proves that Santa (Satan without the “n”) is the antichrist. Please see Ben Stein’s new movie. He is a jew for Christ if there ever was one :).