Natural History Wanderings

CBS Radio reports

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains.

A team of scientists from Montana State University, the U.S. Geological Survey and collaborating institutions discovered the ancient whitebark pine forest while on an archeological survey on the Beartooth plateau in Wyoming, thanks to warming temperatures that melted the ice previously covering it.

Read more or listen at: Ancient forest uncovered by melting ice in the Rocky Mountains | CBC Radio