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Facts and figures about the four Utah trees that are the longest-lived of their species

Salt Lake Tribune | July 22, 2018

Related Topics: Utah, Genus, Geographic coordinate system, American Fork Canyon, Tree

Location • It stands at about 10,000 feet in elevation at the head of American Fork Canyon near the divide with the Heber Valley.

(Photo courtesy of Doug Page, Bureau of Land Management, photographed Sept. 4, 2005) Botanists Stan Kitchen and Clint Reese inspect the world's oldest known ponderosa pine, which stands in the Wah Wah Mountains of southwest Utah.

Location • Southern Utah’s Wah Wah Mountains west of Milford until it died in a bark beetle attack in 2016.

(Photo courtesy of Chris Baisan, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.) Groves of ancient pinyon pine live in Utah's Nine Mile Canyon.
(Photo courtesy of Chris Baisan, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
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