Donald Rusk Currey is known for felling what Great Basin bristlecone pine tree?
Donald Rusk Currey Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) was an American professor of geography. While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in 1964.
Scots pine Scots pine ("Pinus sylvestris" L.) is a species of pine that is native to Eurasia, ranging from Western Europe to Eastern Siberia, south to the Caucasus Mountains and Anatolia, and north to well inside the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. In the north of its range, it occurs from sea level to 1,000 m , while in the south of its range it is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 1200 – altitude. It is readily identified by its combination of fairly short, blue-green leaves and orange-red bark.