Prometheus (WPN-114) was a living member of a population of bristlecone pine trees near the tree line on the lateral moraine of a former glacier on Wheeler Peak, in Great Basin National …

2021年1月5日 · Currey found a tree in this grove he believed to be well over 4,000 years old. This tree was known by local mountaineers as Prometheus. There are several accounts of how …

2024年9月30日 · Now known as Prometheus, the doomed tree was a Great Basin bristlecone pine located on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada. When the deed was done, Currey brought a …

2017年1月12日 · On the mountain’s flanks are ancient bristlecone pines, among the oldest living trees on earth, and it was an incident that occurred in this grove — the cutting down of a …

6 天之前 · Due to the harsh conditions these trees grow in, it is likely that a growth ring did not form every year. Because of this, Prometheus was estimated at being 4,900 years old, the …

In 1964, a University of North Carolina graduate student named Donald Currey went to Nevada in search of Great Basin bristlecone pines. Living high in the mountains of just three Western …

2022年2月17日 · Great Basin National Park in Nevada is home to one of the world's oldest living trees: the bristlecone pine. Back in 1960, a researcher was studying the great Prometheus …

2023年5月29日 · Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in Wheeler Peak, Nevada, lived close to 5,000 years before it was cut down in 1964. It remains the longest-lived …

2025年2月20日 · Prometheus, named after the Titan who defied the gods in Greek mythology, was an extraordinary specimen of the Pinus longaeva species, or the Great Basin Bristlecone …

2014年7月11日 · Sitting among a small copse of pine trees on Nevada's Wheeler Peak are the remains of a tree once known as "Prometheus" which, while it lived, was thought to be almost …