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Horticulture: Trees – News
- Botanical Gardens Conservation International’s “State of the World’s Trees” documents the conservation status of the world’s nearly 60,000 tree species (September 2021) (PDF)
- “The Science Behind the Oldest Trees on Earth”
How experts have determined that bristlecone pines, sequoias and baobabs have stood for thousands of years, by Jared Farmer, Smithsonian Magazine, January 3, 2023
* Adapted from Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer. Published by Basic Books. Copyright © 2022 by Jared Farmer. All rights reserved.
“Methuselah” grows in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of eastern California and is well over 4,500 years old.
“Gran Abuelo” (“Great-Grandfather”) in Alerce Costero National Park, Chile, might be the oldest living tree on the planet. It is estimated to be 5,484 years old. Huon pine, native to the Australian island of Tasmania, grows in a clonal cluster. It may be the world’s oldest known living organism at over 10,000 years old.”
- “How ‘micro forests’ can make an environmental impact with tiny plots of land in big cities” by Phillip Palmer via KABC News, Los Angeles, September 2, 2022
- “U.S. Will Plant One Billion Trees to Combat Climate Change“ by Sarah Kuta, Daily Correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine, July 29, 2022
- “MICRO FORESTS: MACRO CHANGES TOWARD REDUCING CLIMATE CHANGE” by Mckenna Foy (Boston College’21), Sustainability Intern, Boyer Sudduth Environmental Consultants, April 2, 2021