By Lyndsie Bourgon | Smithsonian.com It was a local hiker who noticed, during a backwoods stroll in May 2012, the remains of the body. The victim in question: an 800-year-old cedar tree. Fifty meters tall and with a trunk three meters in circumference, the cedar was one of the crown jewels in Canada’s Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park. … Continue reading How Thousand-Year-Old Trees Became the New Ivory