Efforts are underway to grow towering new redwood forests, cloned from existing trees, that can sequester massive amounts of carbon and could help combat climate change.
An old growth redwood forest is nature's cathedral. Light filters through the giant trees bathing the ferns and mosses below in a primordial green glow.
For Jake Milarch, who oversees tree propagation at the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, it's the perfect place to clip samples of the tree, small enough to fit into the palm of his hand. 300 feet is a long way up, at almost 28 stories, it's a modest skyscraper. Jake Milarch is a certified arborist who started climbing trees at a young age. He gets to the top of the Brotherhood Tree assisted by Damien Carré of Expedition Old Growth, a specialist at adventure tree climbing and a partner of Archangel.
The Milarchs plan to use these clones to supplement and strengthen depleted redwood forests and even migrate them as climate change begins to affect the trees in their natural habitats. They've already planted coast redwoods in the Presidio in San Francisco and have plans for these clones to be planted all over the world.seems to validate the mission of Archangel, suggesting that planting trees could be an effective strategy to help stem climate change.
The coast redwood forests were decimated in the late 1800s by commercial logging to the extent that only 5 percent of the old growth forest remains. He explains that's the whole reason the park was established.
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