<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">The recent posting about 1000 year old trees is just an opening to Jared Farmers recent and brilliant book, <b>Elderflora</b>, A Modern History of Ancient Trees 2022 Basic Books, NY A must read for anyone interested in the history of the worlds elder trees. Think 10,000 years.<div>Jim Urban<br><div><br></div></div></body></html>