In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Australia, on the trail of the lonesome pine…. To the North Western edge of Sydney there is a bluish haze, one million hectares of forest that makes up Wollemi National Park. In September 1994 park ranger David Noble was out ranging, for want of a better word, and he came across a tree he had never seen before. He took a sample and waved it at anyone who was prepared to be waved at. Nothing. It accidentally got waved at a paleobotanist who pronounced it The Pinosaur, believed to date back to the Triassic/Jurassic Period some 200-280 million years ago, considered to have become extinct some 2 million years ago. So began one of the most interesting and important conservation projects ever. Continue reading Wollemia nobilis