sorry, i'm googling so i'm out of order:

age of trees---aren't the methuselah trees out west approaching
4,000 yrs old? gimme a sec...



Taking Chips Off the Oldest Blocks


By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2003; Page A01


When they finally found it, high in California's rugged White
Mountains, the tree looked a lot like the other stunted and windblown
evergreens scattered about: a twisted mass of sun-bleached wood,
stubborn green needles and gray crusts of bark.

But this particular bristlecone pine was different. Nicknamed
Methuselah, it has clung to its rocky patch of ground near the Nevada
border for the past 4,768 years, making it the oldest known living
tree on the planet.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2003Jun15.html


ok, so almost 5,000 yrs old.


--j_a