
In 1994, a park ranger descending a sandstone gorge west of Sydney found a conifer from a 200-million-year-old family, and the latest official count found only 45 mature Wollemi pines across four secret wild stands
In 1994, ranger David Noble abseiled into a Wollemi canyon and found trees matching 90-million-year-old fossils. Roughly 90 wild Wollemi pines remain — the last of a lineage older than flowering plants.







