Pete Ashton's Notes & Links

This is my notebook. Stuff I’m doing, stuff I’m thinking about, stuff I’ve seen online and feel is worth sharing.

The oldest forest in the world

In 2018 Charles Van Straeten’s palaeobotany team discovered the fossilised root system of a 385-million-year-old forest in New York State. Noah Kalina was sent to photograph him on site and has posted the subsequent article to his newsletter. Fascinating stuff…

A photograph of a white-haired man in a hat gesturing at the fosilised remains of a tree root system on baren rocky ground. Photo by Noah Kalina.