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Nice try Kaveman! It is Sequoiadendron giganteum:P I have been to both Petrified forest and painted desert, Hell, it is practically in my back yard.

MIght have been there preglacially, though. I went to a class about dendro kronology 40 years ago. The instructor had a piece of Oak that was 15 thousand years old. Meaning it was from before the last 2 ice ages here. Something to hold in your hand, I'll tell you.

That would be the present trees, bet there were Bristlecones before them, too. Nothing else grows up there. But you are right, of course.

I would have to say that Bristlecone Pinus longaeva comes close. Not in perpetuity of course, but a damned long time.

It is hard to live in a 3rd world country :D Thanks all!

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Probably @Burnham or @stikine can answer this. When you log an area, but leave some seed trees behind to start the next generation, what is the term for those young trees that sprout up? It is done a lot with Beech here, we hardly ever plant those. My apprentice is having English at the forestry...