Old Tree
View Related Episode: Ethanol, Forest Surveyors, Old Tree
Join a 3-day journey deep into the Eagle Cap Wilderness in search of a truly ancient tree. Discovered on a dangerously steep mountain, the limber pine could be among the oldest trees in Oregon – and it’s still alive.
First Broadcast: 2010
Producer: Vince Patton
Videographer/Editor: Michael Bendixen
Photos Courtesy of : Evan Larson and Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research: Univ. of Arizona
Appeared in episode: Ethanol, Forest Surveyors, Old Tree
For more information:
Champion Trees
Limber Pine Communities
The Gymnosperm
- Online: Conifers.org/pi/pin/flexilis.htm
Cusick Mountain’s Namesake (PDF)

