
Tenth Grade Propagators
Tenth-grade Onekama High School students learned to propagate trees at AATA’s Tree School.
Tenth-grade Onekama High School students learned to propagate trees at AATA’s Tree School.
Archangel Ancient Tree Archive will plant a clone of one the largest and oldest champion gumbo limbo trees in the world in honor of Apollo 14 pilot, Navy Captain Edgar D. Mitchell.
Part of the mission of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is to clone iconic trees to ensure their preservation. The Central Park Beech tree famously planted in New York City by Central Park architect Frederick Law Olmstead and cloned in 2008 with assistance of David Milarch, then of Champion Tree Project International, will be replanted in all five boroughs of New York City.
Archangel is participating in a study of how many Champion sequoia trees would be required to offset the University of Michigan’s carbon footprint.
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.
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.