Donald Rusk Currey is known for felling what Great Basin bristlecone pine tree?
Donald Rusk Currey: Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) was an American professor of geography. Donald Rusk Currey:  While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in 1964. Prometheus (tree): Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine ("Pinus longaeva") tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States.
Prometheus