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.
The 3,000 year old Waterfall Tree (Sequoia giganteum) is perhaps the world’s largest known single stem tree. Its trunk is 30′ in diameter at the base. In 2011, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive collected cuttings from the tree in an effort to clone this tremendous specimen. We have recently seen success in rooting these cuttings.
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.”
Gardenista.com is a blog by designers that care about interior and exterior design, and trending topics that effect their community. They wrote a lovely account of our recent planting of the world’s first champion tree old growth forest.