Metadata Set for Prometheus/WPN-114, Robert Bailey, 2016
- Basic description: a bristlecone pine tree (Pinuslongaeva)
- Name: Prometheus
- Giver of name: Darwin Lambert and friends (c. 1958-1961)
- Designation: WPN-114
- Designator: Donald R. Currey (c. 1963-1964)
- Original location: Wheeler Peak, White Pine County, Nevada
- Elevation of original location: about 10,700 feet (about 3,261 meters)
- Date of germination: c. 2898 BCE
- Height of tree: 17 feet (dead crown), 11 feet (living shoot)
- Circumference of tree: 252 inches at 18 inches above ground
- Bark growth on tree: 19-inch wide north-facing strip covering 8% of circumference
- Erosion of tree: pith missing below 76 inches above the ground or 100 inches above the original base
- Date of tree’s felling: early August 1964
- Feller of tree: Donald R. Currey and members of the United States Forest Service
- Reason for felling tree: unclear and contested
- Topic of Currey’s research: the Little Ice Age of c. 1300-late 1400s that continued untilc. 1870
- Funder of Currey’s research: National Science Foundation
- Currey’s affiliation: graduate student, Department of Geography, University of NorthCarolina
- Giver of permission to fell the tree: Donald E. Cox, Humboldt National Forestdistrict ranger
- Process of preparing tree for further study: two horizontal slabs (one slab from theinterval 18-30 inches above the ground and the other, smaller slab including the pith from 76 inches above the ground) fitted together and smoothly finished to be used in dating the tree; other sections finished and/or polished for display
- Arrangement of rings in sectioned slab: concentric and uncomplicated
- Original estimation of age: 4,844 years old (by Donald R. Currey)
- Current estimation of age: 4,862 years old (by Donald Graybill)
- Possible age: >5000 years old
- Current locations of tree: Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park, White Pine County,Nevada (stump); Great Basin National Park Visitor Center, Baker, Nevada (sections); Ely Convention Center, Ely, Nevada (sections); Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (sections used to date the tree); Institute of Forest Genetics, Placerville, California (sections)
- Estimated number of human beings that saw the tree alive: fewer than 50