Trivia: Which fact is true of California’s Inyo National Forest?
America’s first national forest
Only rainforest on the West Coast
Most tree species in the world
Home to oldest single tree in U.S.
The correct answer is Home to oldest single tree in U.S.
So why is this answer correct? : In 2013, scientists announced that an unnamed Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, located in Inyo National Forest near Yosemite National Park, had been verified as 5,062 years old. Other trees on Earth are reportedly older than these two in California, but they are colony trees that clone and reproduce — in other words, large groups of trees that are connected by a single root system.