Results: World's Oldest Tree turns 4,847 this Year
Published on 05/05/2016
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Even if people have laid eyes on the world's oldest tree, there's a good chance they didn't realize it. That's because the United States Forest Service keeps all information about the 4,847-year-old Great Basin bristle-cone pine (including its exact location) completely under wraps to protect it from any potential vandals, loggers, and researchers who may be interested in chopping it down. Are you familiar with the World's oldest tree?
Yes
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258 votes
No
71%
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Undecided
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Not Applicable
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Here are a few known facts about the Methuselah tree. Which facts are you familiar with? The tree is known as a Methuselah (the World's oldest known living tree).
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It is "rumored" to be located somewhere on a mountain in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest (part of the Inyo National Forest in California).
9%
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The Forest Service refuses to release even as much as a picture of the tree out of fear what may happen to it.
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Methuselah (named for the biblical figure who lived to be 969 years old) had long since spread its roots in the soil when the Egyptians began building the pyramids, and democracy would not begin for another 2,212 years.
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The trunks of bristlecone pines begin to die around their 1,000th birthday.
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The Forest Service will not disclose the location of the "Methuselah" is that the world's former oldest-known tree the Prometheus (an ancient pine in Nevada's Great Basin National Park) was chopped down by a graduate student in 1964.
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N/A
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Who do you think is more interested in chopping the Methuselah tree down? Vandals
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Loggers
8%
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Researchers
10%
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All the above
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N/A
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