Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has successfully cloned John Muir’s beloved giant sequoia. Approximately 400 cuttings from the original tree were sent to Archangel Ancient Tree Archive in April 2013. Since then, the staff has been hard at work trying to save this living connection to John Muir.
Radio host Bob Charles spoke at length with Archangel co-founder David Milarch about his work to propagate and preserve the genetic heritage of the world’s last old growth forest giants and save our arboricultural legacy.
Archangel has been tapped to propagate a tree planted in about 1898 by naturalist John Muir in order to save its genetics. The Giant Sequoia, like so many in the San Francisco Bay area, has been afflicted with a vascular fungus.
Thanks to everyone at NBC Nightly News for broadcasting this story about our work. We truly appreciate your helping us to get the story out about our efforts to clone these great forest giants, and most importantly, to give new life to the oldest and largest tree specimens that ever lived.
Co.Exist, a website about sharing world changing ideas and innovation, posted an article about Archangel called “An Archive Of Ancient Tree DNA Will Help Us Clone The Ones We Destroy.”