World's Oldest Red Spruce

Fundy National Park can now claim the oldest red spruce in the world! This summer Mount AllisonUniversity student Ben Phillips found the tree while doing research in the Park. It's at least 445 years old and the oldest documented red spruce tree on the planet. The tree is so old, it predates European colonization in North America. It was here in 1604 when Champlain explored the Bay and established the first European colony in North America on St Croix Island. It survived the logging industry early in the last century as well as disease and fire.

However the tree will not become a tourist attraction - its location is a secret. It is good to know that one of the world's oldest living thing exists in Fundy National Park

Until next time.

Alan