Clyde Friend calls himself “just a common-sense person” and he loves nothing better than to sit on his bulldozer and move earth around on his land near Yakima, WA. Five years ago he was bulldozing an embankment for a new driveway and he unearthed a fabulous find: a forest of petrified wood. Friend had been picking up bits of the ancient wood here and there on his property for the thirty years he has owned it, but he never expected to run across a 15 million year old stand of fossilized trees. And these rare trees are even more unique as they are upright. He’s dug up about 200 trees and has sold some specimens to a museum and collectors who have tracked him down but right now he’s not selling any more until he regroups and ponders this unexpected treasure trove.