Mourning the loss of 'The Senator,' a 3,500-year-old tree
Fans lament the loss of a giant bald cypress in Florida, one of the world's oldest trees.
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will it grow back?
So bad to look the video of the burning of Senator bald Cypress that I took photo in 1999 for a book. I also collected seeds of it and offer two young bald cypress of Senator to one of my donator in France where I live. Their grow together in a nice peace of land near a pond ! They have now nearly 10 meters high !
if you want to visit them, contact me , have a look my site http://arbresvenerables.fr
If people need photo of the Senator I can find them too !
regards
Jerome Hutin
France,.... More
Maybe the tree, after witnessing the seemingly endless stream of idiotic articles and dimwitted comments like many of those above, set itself on fire.
In the same sentence where you say "probably the oldest in the United States" you give a link to a tree in the US that is older...the Methusaleh. Did they go over fact checking when (if) you took journalism?
Seriously? People laying wreaths? RIP signs? This shows how insane we have gotten. It isn't like the death of a person. How many of you who are crying would wish it was your brother, child, or parent instead of the tree? There are millions of very, very old trees. They live, they die, and they are not aware of it.
loss of 35000 years old tree the "senato r" in big tree park is great loss for the whole mankind ,natural calamity was the cause of fire so i feel god has fixed its last day himself ,must have survived numerous plants as its progeny.
i'm from sanford so was fortunate enough to see it before i moved.
Tragic as this is, please get your facts right. There are much older trees on the California/Nevada border; "Methuselah" is a 4,789 year old Bristlecone Pine.
We do have environment West of the Rockies you know.
get YOUR facts straight. it says
ONE OF the world's oldest trees. this is a fact.
I did go to see this tree a few years ago with my family. I don't remember whether or not it had a lightning conducting cable mounted on it or not. Anyone know? Sorry to hear it's gone. What readers don't know is that there were many more of these amazingly large and old trees in Florida before the industrious pioneers cut them down for profits. They actually dug canals just to get them out. But that was o.k. wasn't it? What made this tree so special was actually the absence of forethought.... More
heartbroken!!!!
How could someone be so intentionally malicious ... it just stuns me. :((
The article says "had likely been smoldering deep inside its trunk for two weeks after a lightning strike, according to investigators."No one knew until it came up at the top," Seminole County Fire Rescue spokesperson Steve Wright told ABC."
Did you even read the article? No one BURNED it down...LIGHTNING HIT IT!
Decided two weeks ago to see the Senator for the first time - Glad the family has the memory and the pictures.
Wendy
