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March 14th, 2011
Looking Up
Good morning,
I don't normally do this, but today's article is not one of mine. I copied and pasted it from Yahoo News.
My family and I love the redwoods. It is a very special place for us and we are planning another trip to visit the redwoods this summer.
www.SkyeThomas.com/redwoods.html
I am always pleased to hear about people trying to save the redwoods, the rainforests, etc. I love hearing about people doing work to clean up the planet and to try to make it more beautiful.
So, today I am sending along this article. Maybe some of you can help this organization and plant a tree.
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This Week's News of Interest:
The new forecasts are on schedule and should be going out some time this weekend.
Here are the links for those of you who like to read the horoscopes online...
April 2011 Monthly Horoscope for Aries
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Quote of the Week:
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around
you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference
you want to make. -
Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man
who cleans up the river. -
Feature Article of the Week:
Group seeks forest restoration to cleanse planet
By JOHN FLESHER, AP Environmental Writer John Flesher,
Ap Environmental Writer Sun Mar 13, 2:14 pm ET
COPEMISH, Mich. -
They are among the most iconic trees on Earth, remnants of once-
"In our infinite wisdom, we've destroyed 98 percent of the old growth forests that
kept nature in balance for thousands of years," said David Milarch, the group's co-
Milarch, a tree nursery operator from the northern Michigan village of Copemish, and sons Jared and Jake have been producing genetic copies of ancient trees since the 1990s. They've now joined with Elk Rapids businesswoman Leslie Lee and a team of researchers to establish Archangel Archive, which has a staff of 17 and an indoor tree research and production complex.
Its mission: Clone the oldest and largest individuals within the world's most ecologically
valuable tree species, and persuade people to buy and plant millions of copies -
"The number of these ancient survivors that go in the ground will be the ultimate measure of our success," said Lee, who donated several million dollars to get the project off the ground and serves as board chairwoman. The group hopes donations and tree sales will raise enough money to keep it going.
Scientific opinion varies on whether trees that survive for centuries have superior
genes, like champion race horses, or simply have been in the right places at the
right times to avoid fires, diseases and other misfortunes. But Archangel Archive
is a true believer in the super-
The plan is eventually to produce copies of 200 varieties that are considered crucial.
The trees preserve ecosystem diversity, soak up toxins from the ground and atmosphere,
store carbon while emitting precious oxygen, and provide ingredients for medicines.
Rebuilding forests with champion clones could "buy time for humanity" by mitigating
centuries of environmental abuse, said Diana Beresford-
California's coastal redwoods and giant sequoias, the world's largest trees, are best suited for sequestering carbon because of their size, rapid growth and durability, said Bill Libby, a retired University of California at Berkeley tree geneticist and consultant to Archangel Archive. The longer a tree lives, the longer its carbon remains bottled up instead of reaching the atmosphere.
"They grow like crazy," Libby said. "I have a clone of what used to be the world's tallest redwood tree in my back yard. It's still a baby, only 30 years old. It's already taller than anything around it, probably 80 to 100 feet."
Archangel Archive crew members have taken cuttings from redwoods and sequoias between
2,000 and 3,000 years old. Among them: the Stagg tree, ranked the world's sixth-
Three dozen coastal redwood clones and nine of the giant sequoias have taken root in the Copemish facility and another in Monterey, Calif., David Milarch said. The group also has successfully cloned sprouts from stumps of a dozen redwoods that were felled years ago, including one 35 feet in diameter.
The group uses several processes to develop clones. One is micropropagation, in which
branch tips less than an inch long are planted for weeks in baby food jars containing
gel-
Terry Root, a Stanford University climate change expert, said giant tree clones could
help fight global warming if large numbers are planted where conditions favor their
long-
Finding genetically superior trees has been challenging, but group leaders acknowledge their biggest hurdle may be selling the public on the urgency of restoring the world's ancient forests.
David Milarch said he was aghast to learn that vast tree plantations were being cultivated
in Ireland -
"It makes no sense to plant monocultures of exotic species while the last of your giant native trees are in danger of blinking off the earth," he said.
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Archangel Ancient Tree Archive: http://www.ancienttreearchive.org
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