![]() as well as six other countries as faraway as New Zealand and France. The organization has planted tens of thousands of quasi-ancient trees in the U.S. ![]() Archangel supplies a loose network of environmental organizations whose volunteers do the planting. Milarch uses the saplings to act as “living archives” to create or rehabilitate forests. only about 2 percent of its old-growth forests remain. ![]() But deforestation has rapidly decimated old-growth forests and has done so before scientists got much of a chance to study the genomes and even the ecology of such “champion trees.” In the U.S. “Most coast redwoods and other trees don’t live to be a thousand years old, but some live to be 2,000 or more and we don’t know why,” says David Milarch, lifelong nurseryman who co-founded the Champion Tree Project in 1994, which became Archangel 14 years later. and beyond-some more than two millennia old. A nonprofit, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, has cloned from tissue samples of some of the world’s oldest and largest trees found across the U.S. But these trees are not as young as their sizes would suggest. Tucked away in the rolling hills of northern Michigan a once-dilapidated warehouse in the town of Copemish now brims with thousands of tiny saplings.
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