The Weather Channel has been following our efforts at Archangel. Reporter Terrell Johnson interviewed David Milarch for this fact-filled story about the motivation behind saving these great old trees. It’s a story about beginnings, urgency, and practicality.
Smithsonian.com asks if cloning giant redwoods can save the planet. They think that “the spirit behind this idea is still quite good.”
In a nationally broadcast NPR show today, Here & Now, host Robin Young called our David Milarch a “modern-day Johnny Appleseed.”
News of the Archangel Global Earth Day planting is spreading far and wide!
The article is from the Tamworth Herald, Staffordshire England, about one of the planting locations.
David Milarch is showing us by example what can be done to restore the Earth. His Earth Day 2013 talk at Northwestern Michigan College, entitled Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet will touch on the challenges we face, and the opportunities in our grasp to restore our planet we call home.
There are people and causes in this world worth celebrating. Brilliance and success are often celebrated, but I sometimes wonder if we have it wrong. Maybe the people we should be celebrating are not tech icons, captains of industry and entrepeneurs like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, or Bill Gates. In a sense, these men have received their reward. But how about the people who do big things without a guaranteed payoff at the end? Meet David Milarch.
Students planted clones of the champion Acme Black Willow to reintroduce the tree into the ecosystem, and to help clean water and soil next to a parking lot at their school. They also got a boost from the knowledge passed on about propagation and planting of trees, and are participating in growing clones for replanting in the spring.
David Milarch believes that the genetics of long-living trees should be studied to understand how they have managed to survive and thrive.
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.”
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