We learned that birds will gather their seeds and cache them, sometimes forgetting where they cached them. Then they will sometimes sprout in little groups. I wondered if that was why this tree was so wide, if perhaps it was actually a group of trees.
It's amazing to think that one little nuthatch in one blip of time may have started this tree so many centuries ago. How many little bird lifespans went by? And the birds are still here, still starting off new Bristlecones.