White Cedar Lives a Long Time

White cedar on the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.  This tree is not large but it is old.  It can withstand strong wind and waves, cold winters and hot summers as it clings to layers of limestone on the shore of Lake Michigan. White cedar  (arbor vitae) can live for over 800 years.  It's a hardy tree indeed.

A white cedar grows on layers of limestone.  I took this photo on Wisconsin's Door Peninsula.  Here you may find fossils of ancient sea creatures in the stones from the times when salt water seas instead of freshwater covered much of the U.S.

Read more about this in my book, The Dynamic Great Lakes, available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and many other stores.