[Rockhounds] Mid-Devonian fossil forest in peril, Cairo, New York

[Paul]

The world's oldest fossilized forest is in Greene County. It needs saving.
Roger Hannigan Gilson, Times Union, Aug. 5, 2021
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/The-world-s-oldest-fossilized-forest-is-in-
Greene-16366036.php

The world’s oldest known fossil forest has been discovered in a quarry
in upper New York state By Kelly Murray, CNN, December 20, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/us/fossil-trees-new-york-worlds-oldest-trnd-scn/index.html

The open access paper is:

Stein, W.E., Berry, C.M., Morris, J.L., Hernick, L.V., Mannolini, F.,
Ver Straeten, C., Landing, E., Marshall, J.E., Wellman, C.H., Beerling,
D.J. and Leake, J.R., 2020. Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris roots signal
revolutionary change in earliest fossil forests. Current biology, 30(3),
pp.421-431.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31569-6

Yours,

Paul H.