{"id":6267,"date":"2012-03-07T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T19:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstater.com\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2014-06-18T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T11:19:21","slug":"catskills-home-to-the-worlds-oldest-forest-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/catskills-home-to-the-worlds-oldest-forest-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Catskills: Home to the World&#8217;s Oldest Forest Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oldest Forest&#039;s Floor Found\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fNjX1qZEb4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We found out that news on the great upstate blog from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sampratt.com\/sam\/2012\/03\/390-million-years-ago-today-in-the-catskills.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Pratt<\/a>, who reports that Nature magazine has written about a stretch of forest floor in Gilboa some 390 years old, with botanical imprints that are the flora equivalent of dinosaur footprints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found out that news on the great upstate blog from Sam Pratt, who reports that Nature magazine has written about a stretch of forest floor in Gilboa some 390 years old, with botanical imprints that are the flora equivalent of dinosaur footprints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1061],"tags":[6,60],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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