Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California - World's Oldest | Out in the Field with Jeremy Patrich
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2021
- Join me on an adventure, 'Out in the Field' as I adventure out to explore The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest up in the White Mountains along Eastern California. These trees are remarkable, as they are considered some of the oldest living trees in the world... over 4,000 years old. We will introduce the geology, the history and explain how we know the ages of these trees.
In the White Mountains, the Ancient Bristlecone Pines seem to show a preference for growing on the white, rocky soil that gives the name to this mountain range. This is dolomite, a type of limestone created under the warm, shallow, inland sea that once covered this area.
Scientists use a device called an increment borer to extract a small cross-section of a tree. This sample provides a look at each tree ring and enables scientists to determine both the age of the tree and the pattern of its growth. There are many trees in the bristlecone pine forest of the White Mountains that exceed 4000 years of age, and are still growing. Recent research indicates there is a living tree older than 5,000 years.
Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed. As well as dating them, this can give data for dendroclimatology, the study of climate and atmospheric conditions during different periods in history from wood.
Because the bristlecone pines of this grove provided the wood to recalibrate the radiocarbon dating method, they have become known as the trees that rewrote history.
Geographic Features Observed: dolomite, dendrochronology, absolute dating, uplift, sedimentary, Mt. Whitney, Sheep Mountain, White Mountains, Bishop, Patriarch Tree
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Wow! Five thousand years!! Absolutely mind-blowing!!!
It really is!
I am so grateful that I was part of this day! The views are spectacular and unlike anything I have seen before. I had so much fun with all of you! Can’t wait to do it again! 💜
It was so exciting to have you go on this adventure! I can't wait for many more- and let's not forget the Chinese Food in Lone Pine! Mmmm!
I would have loved to have been a part of the trip!
It was incredible- and I wish you had come along. It was a lot for a one-day trip... lol
excellent presentation...thank you for putting the video experience together; it is appreciated
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge about CA and dendrichronology :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
came here from the book 'Twelve Trees' by Daniel Lewis
Thank you professor.. your channel is beautiful.. spiritual..💚
Wow, thank you!!!
Great video!! I always wanted to visit this place. Thank your for taking us along!!
Thanks for watching! I hope you get the chance to visit- the upper grove is incredible!
These field videos just keep getting better ❤️
Glad you like them! I love sharing my adventures!
Wow!!! Everything is so beautiful!!!
Thank you! 🤗 It really was- few words can describe the feeling when you are up there!
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey thanks for this amazing video man
Thank you!!
Incredible place and I agree it has an otherworldly, spiritual quality. Great video thanks
I really appreciate your kind words!
Thank you for sharing this. 🖤
You are so welcome!
I really enjoyed the video on the Bristlecone Tree, it was very informative. thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for letting me know!
Great production quality sir! Really fascinating video.
Glad you liked it!
Great video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fascinating video at the PATRICK Grove! 😊
lol I know! That was all Nikki
Jeremy, I love 2:09 & 9:06, Professor Patrich. :) Thank you and your "crew" for putting these videos together.
Thank you, Brian! Sorry for the delay!
Amazing, had never even known of these trees
And the smell… it’s amazing and unlike anything I ever experienced before!
thank you! very interesting what I learn here. I am in Switzerland and visited these trees several times. it is very special up there. I will go again!
Wonderful!
Awesome video!❤
Glad you liked it!!
This really is a magical place.
I agree- it is really incredible!
Magpie blinkers can't be used for the go outdoors cover then
Deploy the cherry bomb pea 😂😭
Amazing video, how's this got so little views? Love it, great presentation, awesome and stunning footage. Educational, inspiring, an absolute pleasure to watch.
Good question! But I am thankful you came across it! If you loved this... check out my Fossil Falls video too!
Great video! We should respect nature more..
Absolutely!
Brb just catching up on my out on the field videos 🌿
Enjoy! Don't be such a stranger- and hopefully one of these weekends you can join us out in the field!
Confused by 2:46 - Dolomite's radioactivity is essential for the survival of the bristlecone pine....can you expand on that statement?
Of course! So first, the dolomite is very alkaline- wish most vegetation won't grow with, but the Bristlecones have adapted to high alkalinity. Dolomite also contains radioactive minerals/materials in which only the Bristlecones thrive! www.jstor.org/stable/1932148
one thing you forgot to show are the ancient pinecones. the oldest ones i could find look like bones
I just visited the grove a few days ago (May 2023) It's one of most beautiful places I've seen.
I'm curious if they've found fossilized samples of older trees. Even the oldest trees had parents and great grandparents.
Very true, but geologically, much of this area would have been under the ocean, during the age in which fossilization would have occurred.
I believe they can tie the tree ring cored from live trees to those from dead ones and go back about 10,000 years. The concept is that two trees alive at the same time will grow proportionately and therefore produce rings with approximately the same width.
P.S. In my unbiased opinion, out of all your videos, this was the best ending. 😂
Glad you enjoyed it- and I am sure thankful we didn't get stung by that bee!
The Methuselah Birstlecone in the Schulman Grove is over 5,000 years old!
did you get to visit that special tree? I know that the location of the tree is kept a secret from being cut off
I have seen many of them- and they are remarkable!
Hi Sir
That's a great video. Both: informative and awe inspiring. Thanks for the same. Is it a one day trip or you need to camp there. At 10K+ altitude do you need any permission to go? What precautions do you need to take? What height you can drive up to? Lastly which is the closest place at the base of mountain where you can stay in Hotel?
Hello! I have done both the lower and upper grove in a day trip (out of Bishop, which is the large town at the base of the mountain). There are no permissions or forms required however the road to the lower grove is paved but the upper grove (in this video) is gravel and is often closed due to weather. As for places to stay, Bishop is at the foot of the mountain, but I love staying a little south in a town called Lone Pine- it is a perfect spot to view the tallest peak, Mt. Whitney!
@@Jeremy.Patrich Thanks for the reply.
There is a campground in the Pinyon-Juniper woodland down around 7,500' just after you turn off the Westguard Pass Road (Hwy 168). If you do not adjust well to high altitudes, then spend the night there. The Patriarch Grove is over 11,000' (I believe it is the highest road in CA.) That's over two miles above sea level and the air is half as dense as at sea level. By all means brings lots of water with you, and drink before you are thirsty (to keep your blood flowing and getting oxygen to your brain!).
at 2:49, what is the word 'redactivity' in the ocean stones? and how is it necessary for the survival of these pines?
I think it's a typo with the captioning-it should be radioactivity. Its part of the high alkalinity that these trees need to thrive.
@@Jeremy.Patrich oh cool, thanks. I ordered some seeds online, hopefully theyll do well for me here in san joaquin county.
why is the radioactivity essential to the trees?
Excellent question- So first, the dolomite is very alkaline- wish most vegetation won't grow with, but the Bristlecones have adapted to high alkalinity. Dolomite also contains radioactive minerals/materials in which only the Bristlecones thrive! www.jstor.org/stable/1932148
i still think about the drive up there 😅😅😅 and the pulled pork sandwich from erick schats bakery 😋😋😋😋
Mmmm! I hope we get a chance to do it again soon!!
@@Jeremy.Patrich you have no idea!!!! my cousin and i dream about it and the tuna melt from the diner 🥵🥵🥵
Oh man! On jalapeño cheddar bread! Now I’m hungry!
Can you drive a sedan (Corolla, Sentra) up there?
Yes you can- but you gotta drive slow and have good tires. I took a Prius one trip!
@@Jeremy.PatrichThanks for your reply. Just did a 2-day visit and hiked all 3 locations. Those trees are the beasts!!! My 212k Prius did just fine except now it sounds like a snare drum after the drive to Patriarch.
Why couldn't you grow a bristlecone pine tree.
You could, it would do best if you have a small piece of Dolomitic Marble with it. Just know, though, that in 50 years, the tree would still be too small to put a star on the top!
This location was ALMOST as cool as the fart volcanoes
I don't know- it's pretty close!
@@Jeremy.Patrich if the trees farted, maybe that would be a tie
Maybe they do- maybe they are silent... but deadly. That's why I had a hard time breathing!
@@Jeremy.Patrich OOOOOOOH good point!
lol
"Ancient" doesnt sit right with me referring to California places
I completely understand, but 4,000 years is a pretty good start!
Was looking for a video to share w/my 4th graders and was frustrated by the bleeps at the end. Totally unnecessary and ruined a great video. Disappointing.
Oh! In the end credits- yea the bee in the car terrifying! I recommend just stopping the video at the end of the video- and not letting it roll into the subscriptions screen- which is where the bloopers are. Hope that helps!
Thanks for your reply! I teach in a hybrid program, so the kids would be watching at home, I would hate for that to come up unexpectedly…
I completely understand, how about using this link? It is designed to start and stop without allowing them to go beyond the end screen? ruclips.net/video/cqKN-IWF1t0/видео.htmlsi=lKG_JcTm56-VZgXq?start=0&end=540
Witch trees!
Witch trees?! OMG what a great place to camp for Halloween!
@@Jeremy.Patrich I'll take your word for it. Lol I've seen Blair Witch Project. I know how camping with witches goes.
LoL true- I guess you would turn into a pumpkin!
Tell ....The location of these trees
Wow! Five thousand years!! Absolutely mind-blowing!!!