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Archeologist speaks for earth’s oldest oak

Archeologist speaks for earth’s oldest oak

| April 1, 2020 | 2 Comments

13,000 years ago, when the Tar Pit ooze was swallowing Ice Age mammoths, an unassuming little Palmer’s Oak, growing just south of what is now Fontana, cloned itself. Every time a forest fire attacked one of its limbs, the burnt branch would sprout a clone stem, thus insuring it would live forever — unless threatened […]

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