In the past, when a candidate for the title of the world’s oldest tree was discovered in the United States, many predictable things tended to happen, varying slightly by historical era. The tree was usually found on land that had been given away or sold cheap by the federal government—and then had to be repurchased […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/03/23/trees-in-themselves-elderflora-jared-farmer/