Talk:Donald Rusk Currey

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This page has factual mistakes that are easy to spot. Can somebody (who knows how) fix it?

Any mention of California is wrong here. Wheeler peak Currey was working on is in Nevada, on the border with Utah. There IS NO Wheeler peak in California at all. You can check on Google maps if you want. I mean, several of the links in the page show that it is in Nevada:

1. Snake Range
2. Wheeler Peak
3. Lehman Caves National Monument
4. Great Basin National Park
5. Methuselah tree

Even the reference material, the book Currey HIMSELF published is named "An Ancient Bristlecone Pine Stand in Eastern Nevada"

I think the confusion stems from this:

White Pine County - where the trees actually are in Nevada

White Mountains - A range in California that also has White in the name and type of tree Currey fell also grows in California.

I don't know anything about what's written in the "Aftermath" section, but I think it probably is a mistake as well: "In the article, Currey indicates that he sectioned the tree as much from the question of whether the oldest bristlecones were necessarily confined to California's White Mountains (as some dendrochronologists had been claiming) as from its usefulness in regard to studies of the Little Ice Age." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.29.97.151 (talk) 20:43, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

I rewrote the section to make it clear that the incident took place in eastern Nevada rather than California. I do not think that it is necessary to eliminate all mention of California since the range of the species in question extends from eastern California through Nevada and well into Utah. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 02:07, 20 July 2019 (UTC)