We have seen the Bristlecone Pines on the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada. They are beautiful. Like windswept, timeless Bonsai trees.

Truly amazing

Mother Nature would love hearing this story or anything about Planet Earth. 🌴🌲🌎💙💚

Great story! 👏

Amazing and fascinating.

Wonderful report, thank you!

The great basin national park in nevada has these magnificent trees also, nice story learned alot more cool facts😁

I’d like to know how the scientists know those core samples don’t bother the trees. What does the tree do, in that arid environment, to fill in that hole and fight off other life forms that want to invade that hole?

Magnificent , sculpted by the elements into works of art ,standing old , dignified remnants of the ancient past

Wow that’s absolutely amazing!!

Amazing

Fascinating topic

First time I've seen Professional Tree Huggers

To put this in perception, this tree was already 1,000 years old when the wooly Mammoths died.

And as the bird flies about 50 miles west of there are the largest trees in the world in the Sequoia National Forest.

I recall in college the story of Donald Rusk Currey in the 1960s. Truly an epic fail in researching these ancient ones.

I have been here; it's a long 2 lane road to get there but so worth the trip.

As an arborist, this is much appreciated 🌲

In 1993, when I was 40, I bought my first house,.there were some old trees that came with the property, an arborist told me their height would help me identify its age. He said trees have been known to grow about 10 feet a year. My trees weren't ancient,....they weren't as old as my house, which was built in 1905. It would have been 88 years old in 1993. My trees we guessed, were around 60 years old. Based on its height and trunk circumference.

02:38 The tree section is in the shape of Australia.

This makes me want to go listen to Enya’s album, “The Memory of Trees.”

All trees are beautiful to look at. I would like to learn how to find out the age of trees.

Methuselah was the oldest person according to the Bible so that’s a good name for the oldest tree.

Interviewer looks like Johan Mayer and the tree guy looks like Steve carrel!

Leave the trees alone

Is there really no one else with 500+ years? What are you guys doing?

In 2005, I had this peculiar dream, that I had an ancient tree on my property. In the dream I wanted to cut down the tree, as a means of protecting my house, from a possible wind storm, that could knock it down.Still in the dream, I learned that it would cost $1,000.00 to have it cut down, and I couldn't afford that. When it was known I wanted to cut it down,....some tree historians offered to take down my tree for free, indicating my tree was designated as a "witness tree". Meaning it witnessed a hundred years of history, in Columbus, Ohio. That made it special and worth salvaging all the wood from it. Still in the dream: I sold my tree to these tree historians, for around $300.00. Later I regretted that, since it was regarded as an ancient tree. And I had learned they were worth, many thousands of dollars. When I awoke, I Googled that. Why I dreamt that, is anyone's guess. But it turned out it was something that is real. Tree historians try to save & preserve all ancient trees. Like ones that witnessed Civil War battles,...and were standing on the grounds where historic battles were fought. They try to keep them alive for as long as is possible. Then when they are taken down, the wood is used for special commemorative items such as plaques & gavels.

What causes the demarcations, i.e., the lines, between yearly rings? I mean, the tree doesn't mark a calendar for 1 year, then draw a line, so what exactly causes the annual 'end of year' lines?

this tree in Utah in the running .The Trembling Giant, or Pando, is an enormous grove of quaking aspens that take the “forest as a single organism” metaphor and makes it literal: the grove really is a single organism. Each of the approximately 47,000 or so trees in the grove is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system. search PANDO tree in Utah..

Have they been all over the world to know if these are the oldest.????

*I wonder what's been found studying the 'Mother and Daughters' plants in Nevada, estimated at 100,000 -years in age...I haven't heard anything in maybe 25-years or so*

It will leave a hole that bugs will crawl into. Don't be daft.

Stop having to invade them to study them, like some alien. Leave them alone, period.

Save our Galaxy!

Got to see these amazing!!!!

My future self I hope

Love this report, but as for me, the oldest Tree is the Tree of Life which is within all living forms of Thoughts Materialized in our World, including this Pine tree.

There are those in Israel who claim that an olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane is 2,000 years old. Everybody has an oldest, fastest, biggest, smallest, heaviest, something.

4K ? it is 2021 all most 2022 you got the money fix this 2002 problem 1080 really

How impressive! To think that these trees are @4000 years old…and they came from trees before them! So how far back do these tree’s current genetic make up go back? Millions and millions of years before I would imagine. I liken it to use us current primates as the example. We are constantly changing, but we, genetically as a species, have been around for an estimated 200,000 years. How many generations is that? Evolution is amazing.

I don't think they should drill in to them.

So is the oldest dead tree then?

Simply Put.. Mother Nature..Amazing. And DON'T FORGET THAT EITHER.. She Will Teach Us All.. To Be Continued.. Not by me..Mother Nature. Welcome HER..Don't Forget Her.. Ask for Forgiveness For Our Misuse

Please check out Wonderhussy Adventures on KZfaq. She visits many places remote, including visiting these trees. Cheers!

Just leave them alone.... Stop studying an old tree, it's old, leave it! Would you want to be drilled? Stop guessing that it does not bother it

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This was disappointing! I thought that different trees from different areas of the country would be covered.

Earth : behold the worlds oldes tree that i have grown for...... Scientists : lets just see about that I take it they tested this on lots of other trees to see how they heal and also on younger versions of the same tree to make sure its ok after a 1000 more years, anything we do for the better is only for our selfs most times and not always in the best interest of what we study

Lies ! you would think oldest trees would be in Asia or Africa

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I believe in Noah's flood when everything on this earth was destroyed. So regrowth of all trees and vegetation can be dated back to the century after the flood happened.