Fantastic story. Told by scientists that ancient giant Sequoias & Redwoods couldn't be cloned, [View all]

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father and son team persevered and have now proven those scientists wrong. In fact on December 4th Archangel Ancient Tree Archive completed the historic first planting of a Champion Redwood & Sequoia Forest on the southern Oregon coast with exact genetic duplicates of some of the largest champion redwood and sequoia trees in the world.

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Among the dozens of unique individual tree clones to be planted in the first forest will be a duplicate of the Fieldbrook Redwood –- a giant tree cut down in 1890 that measured 32.5 feet in trunk diameter and would have surpassed the General Sherman Sequoia as the largest tree on Earth.

“It’s amazing for one layman to come up with the idea of saving champion trees as a meaningful way to address the issues of biodiversity and climate change. This could be a grass roots solution to a global problem. A few million people selecting and planting the right trees for the right places could really make a difference.”— Dr. Rama Nemani, Earth Scientist


CBC Radio interview with David Milarch begins at about 11 minutes into this clip. Enjoy

http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2314972692,2314976748,2314992422




Archangel Ancient Tree websire

http://www.ancienttreearchive.org/worlds-first-planting-of-a-champion-redwood-sequoia-forest/