Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then ...
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How a scientist accidentally killed a 5,000-year-old tree
Science isn't always perfect, and decades ago, a graduate student's simple experiment proved that, though exactly why he did what he did remains a mystery.
In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...
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How a scientist’s mistake wiped out a 5,000-year-old ancient tree
High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...
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