Date of Bristlecone Pine destruction

[Ken Kinman]

     I don't know the exact date, but it was late 1964 (maybe October or
November?).  You might contact the U.S. Forest Service for an exact date,
since it was some "numskull" working for them who gave Currey permission to
cut down Prometheus.
     Or you might try Currey's 1965 paper published in the journal Ecology
(about the bristlecones in that stand in Nevada).  I can't imagine that he
would have mentioned cutting down the tree (especially in the journal called
"Ecology"), but you never know.  I don't how long it took for him to realize
he had killed the world's oldest tree (or when the story finally hit the
newspapers).
          -----  Ken
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>From: Jerry Bricker <jeraldbr at CAMERON.EDU>
>Reply-To: Jerry Bricker <jeraldbr at CAMERON.EDU>
>To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
>Subject: Date of Bristlecone Pine destruction
>Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:46:39 -0600
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for the date that Donald Curry cut down "Prometheus," the
>oldest Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of Nevada.  Would
>anyone happen to know that bit of trivia?
>
>JB
>--
>
>_______________________________________
>
>Jerry Bricker
>Department of Biological Sciences
>Cameron University
>2800 W. Gore Blvd.
>Lawton, OK 73505
>Phone: 580-581-2374
>FAX: 580-591-8004
>E-mail: jeraldbr at cameron.edu
>Website: cameron.edu/~jeraldbr
>
>"If it disagrees with experiment, it  s wrong. In that simple
>statement is the key to science. It doesn  t matter how beautiful the
>theory is, how smart you are, or what your name is - if it disagrees
>with experiment, it  s wrong."
>
>Richard P. Feyman






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