[Sca-cooks] Tree was Peer Cookery

johnna holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Fri Jun 7 10:30:57 PDT 2002


Was that tree included in that historic
trees of America project?
Johnna

Elaine Koogler wrote:>
> > It was the first e-mail I read this morning....and was exactly what I needed
> to start the day off.  We had received some bad news last night...the Wye
> Oak, what we refer to as our "Witness Tree" because it witnessed the
> founding of our state, was destroyed in a very powerful storm yesterday.
> The tree was over 460 years old (That means that it actually started growing
> in period!!!), and was the oldest white oak in the US.
>> Kiri



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