that those young people managed to burn down a couple of years ago. That really angered me. I love trees, and the older and more venerable, the better.

To build more shopping centers, more subdivisions, more roads leading to more shopping centers and subdivisions.
I love the nature here.. but it seems to be destroyed faster and faster in favour of concrete.
They build in the wild bears habitat, then shoot the bear if the bear happens to wonder on their property, even though it is the bear's home.
Nobody seems to care about nature preservation here. Its an extremely sad and hopeless situation

Welll, that ruined my day That's a huge loss...it was a magnificent tree...

I hope someday we're able to raise a generation with a respect for nature at the very core of their being. It's too precious to waste.

Who started a fire so she could see her meth better.

They let the idiot plea to stay out of jail. Though more recently she lost that deal because of a DUI/violation of probation.

They're saying there were aspen trees in that location, in the same genetic line, 80,000 years ago - not that any of the trees are that old or even ancient (they look pretty young). So it's sort of a misnomer.

The same goes for any of the grasses and mosses and other images of numerous plants rather than a single tree.

The bacteria sample could be from a frozen specimen, so the actual cells could be 400k-600k years old.