The world's oldest fossilized forest is in Greene County. It needs saving.
Roger Hannigan Gilson, Times Union, Aug. 5, 2021
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
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. open access
Yours,
Paul H.