I'm so angry about this...Arson first thing I'm wondering about is who is wanting to develop that land and couldn't because the tree was there.
http://www.wesh.com/news/30221278/detail.html
"The Senator" Burned to ground...
How sad! Loss of an old tree is always hard, and worse if it is due to humans.
They're saying now, not arson, possibly an old lightning strike that had been smouldering a while before it took hold.
Resin
I just read the update...It had a lighting rod tho...and I was just talking with a friend who's an Arborist and he's doesn't agree with the Dept. Of Ag guy. In any case...still very sad to see happen.
A cool article was in the New YOrk Times on it. an amazing tree.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/us/disbelief-still-as-florida-reacts-to-burning-of-3500-year-old-tree.html?src=recg
Saw a comment on another forum from someone 'out west' with good experience of wildfires, he said that small fires in big stumps can go on smouldering almost undetectably for over a month.
Resin
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