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Coordinates: 42°23′48.98″N 74°27′7.84″W. Gilboa tree fossil ( Wattieza) Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York, United States, is a petrified forest and one of the oldest known forests. [1] [2] Located near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County, New York, the region is home to tree trunks from the Devonian period. The fossils, some of the only ...
This is a list of areas of existing old-growth forest which include at least 10 acres (4.0 hectares) of old growth. Ecoregion information from "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World". (NB: The terms "old growth" and "virgin" may have various definitions and meanings throughout the world. See old-growth forest for more information.)
Royal Belum State Park. / 5.5496972°N 101.347889°E / 5.5496972; 101.347889. Belum-Temengor is the largest continuous forest complex in Peninsular Malaysia. Specifically, it is located in the Malaysian state of Perak ( Hulu Perak) and crosses into Southern Thailand. Belum-Temenggor is divided into two sections.
List of oldest trees. Pando, a colony of , is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old. It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual tree vary.
Coordinates: 30.3610°N 130.5319°E. Jōmon Sugi, located on the island of Yakushima, is the oldest and largest specimen of Cryptomeria japonica. [1] Jōmon Sugi (縄文杉) is a large Cryptomeria tree ( yakusugi) located on Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Japan. It is the oldest and largest among the old-growth cryptomeria trees on ...
March 7, 2024 at 9:15 AM. Scientists working in southwest England have found the oldest fossilized forest known on Earth, according to a new study. Dating back 390 million years, the fossils break ...
Old-growth European beech forest in Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. Cool temperate rainforest in Tasmania, Australia. First growth or virgin forest near Mount Rainier, 1914. An old-growth forest [a] is a forest that has developed over a long period of time without disturbance. Due to this, old-growth forests exhibit unique ecological ...
40 m (130 ft) Menara is the name of a yellow meranti ( Shorea faguetiana) tree found in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, in Sabah, Malaysia. It was measured at 100.8 m (331 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tropical tree [1] [2] [3] and was the tallest known tree on the Asian continent until a taller Himalayan cypress ...