
Dead for a Thousand Years
Bristlecone Pine Grove, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, USA
October 19, 2008, about 1 pm
© 2008 G. Donald Bain, All Rights Reserved.
The best known bristlecone pines are in the White Mountains of eastern California, and that is where the oldest currently known trees are located. But there was once an older one here, in the Snake Range of eastern Nevada. Unfortunately it was cut down by a graduate student researching climatic history, its true age revealed only when it was too late. Now the area around Wheeler Peak is protected in Great Basin National Park.
Lat: 39° 0' 4" N
Long: 115° 19' 19" W
Elevation: 3181 meters
Precision is: Unknown / Undeclared.













