06/01/1997
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This article was published in American Forests, Summer 1997.
The stuff of legends, Germany’s 1,000 year-old oaks have thrived through centuries of foragers, wars, and political change.
“In the former East Germany resides a stand of trees older even than the 1,000-year-old state …