Why doesn't our media cover this story. Why would it have to come from a foreign source?
BEIJING, Oct. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Glaciers melting in Western Canada are uncovering fresh-looking, intact tree stumps up to 7,000 years old, a geologist said Tuesday.
Johannes Koch of The College of Wooster in Ohio found the tree stumps beside retreating glaciers in Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) north of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Radiocarbon dating of the wood from the stumps revealed the sine of the wood dated back to within a few thousand years of the end of the last ice age.
"The stumps were in very good condition, sometimes with bark preserved," said Koch, who conducted the work as part of his doctoral thesis at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Koch will present his results on Oct. 31 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in Denver.