Douglas fir with Gary Mead

But you want to talk about age, I have a 60,000-year-old piece of wood.

It's about 60,000.

It was carbon dated.

A friend of mine called me about...

Two months ago, and he told me about it.

And I said, geez, can you get me a piece? And he said, sure.

And I was actually surprised.

And he boxed it right up and sent it up with all this literature on how it was documented and everything.

There's some kind of fault that had happened and this one part of a forest just got covered and what it is, it's a cousin of his that goes ahead when they're doing roads and bridges and tunnels.

And they x-rayed the ground.

I think they go to 120 feet down to see if there's any Indian artifacts or whatever.

So they don't, you know, disrupt anything that might be of...

And this was a great find because, you know, they thought that there was a fungus that the dog fur had that they thought didn't go back more than... 12,000 years.

And they found that same thing and the wood that they uncovered was about 60,000 years old.

So that was pretty cool.

So it was

a covered Douglas fir tree from 60,000 years ago that they found.

It's amazing that they can find all this stuff out.

Like those ones they get in the river down south.

They pull them out of the river and all the minerals are through them and they're beautiful.

Yeah, well, water actually seals them, too, from the elements, and they can't rot underwater.

But, you know, hemlock, if you put it in the water and it stays submerged, that'll last a long, long time.

But if it gets wet and then dry, wet and

dry.

This guy took us for a walk recently.

But you want to talk about age, I have a 60,000-year-old piece of wood.

It's about 60,000.

It was carbon dated.

A friend of mine called me about...

Two months ago, and he told me about it.

And I said, geez, can you get me a piece? And he said, sure.

And I was actually surprised.

And he boxed it right up and sent it up with all this literature on how it was documented and everything.

There's some kind of fault that had happened and this one part of a forest just got covered and what it is, it's a cousin of his that goes ahead when they're doing roads and bridges and tunnels.

And they x-rayed the ground.

I think they go to 120 feet down to see if there's any Indian artifacts or whatever.

So they don't, you know, disrupt anything that might be of...

And this was a great find because, you know, they thought that there was a fungus that the dog fur had that they thought didn't go back more than... 12,000 years.

And they found that same thing and the wood that they uncovered was about 60,000 years old.

So that was pretty cool.

So it was

a covered Douglas fir tree from 60,000 years ago that they found.

It's amazing that they can find all this stuff out.

Like those ones they get in the river down south.

They pull them out of the river and all the minerals are through them and they're beautiful.

Yeah, well, water actually seals them, too, from the elements, and they can't rot underwater.

But, you know, hemlock, if you put it in the water and it stays submerged, that'll last a long, long time.

But if it gets wet and then dry, wet and

dry.

This guy took us for a walk recently.