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Facts and figures about the four Utah trees that are the longest-lived of their species

(Photo courtesy of Doug Page, Bureau of Land Management) Botanist Stan Kitchen discovered the oldest known ponderosa pine, pictured here to the right of Kitchen a year after its death. During a 2017 visit to the site at 8,400 feet in Utah's Wah Wah Mountains, Kitchen scans hillside for other beetle-killed trees.

(Photo courtesy of Doug Page, Bureau of Land Management) Botanist Stan Kitchen discovered the oldest known ponderosa pine, pictured here to the right of Kitchen a year after its death. During a 2017 visit to the site at 8,400 feet in Utah's Wah Wah Mountains, Kitchen scans hillside for other beetle-killed trees.

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