Facts about Forests

The oldest forest is in Cairo, New York.

California currently holds the record for oldest living trees.

The tree is called the Methuselah, the oldest tree in a forest.

Forests help block noise by reducing sound waves

Forests also help reduce through a phenomenon called sound attenuation.

Forest leaves behind leaves, twigs, and branches on trees, shrubs, and herbaceous growth absorb and deflect sound waves to mask unwanted noise.

Some trees from forests have even been to outerspace

Seeds taken to the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

NASA and the US Forest Service wanted to see if the moon's orbit caused the seeds to grow differently back on Earth. The trees were eventually donated to a state forestry.