
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.
Genetic samples of a 2,000 year old bald cypress tree in Florida were collected today by the non-profit group Archangel.
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.
We are honored to have such a supportive article written about our recent efforts by the blog, Out of the Fog: Emerging Science from California’s Central Coast.