They cut these down too. Tables, houses, chairs. Luckily this old growth forest was saved.
While these trees are quite old, the oldest living things in the world live farther south, but also in California.
Ancient Bristlecone Pines live in a desert. Twisted and mangled, they arenât giants like these massive Redwoods, rather unassuming, theyâre over 5000 years old.
Some individual living beings in this world have existed long enough to experience multiple human civilizations come and go.