Gilboa Fossil Forest,New York, United States, is apetrified forest and one of the oldest knownforests.[1][2] Located near theGilboa Dam inSchoharie County, New York, the region is home to tree trunks from theDevonian period. The fossils, some of the only survivors of their type in the world, are believed to have been from one of the first forests on Earth, and was part of the Earth'safforestation.Paleobotanists have been interested in the site since the 1920s when construction work for a water supply project found several large, verticalfossilized stumps. Some of these remain on display at the Gilboa Dam site (42°24′1.46″N74°27′0.49″W / 42.4004056°N 74.4501361°W /42.4004056; -74.4501361) and theNew York Power Authority Blenheim-Gilboa Visitor Center inSchoharie County and at theNew York State Museum.[3]
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