Question

How old were the trees that John Muir was describing

Answer 1

In the expert from John Muir's "The America Forests," which was feature in Atlantic Monthly in August 1897, the trees that he is describing are "more than three thousand years [old]." Moreover, they existed "long before" Christ's time. They survived "...drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempest and floods..."