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Arborists Are Bringing the 'Dinosaur of Trees' Back To Life (qz.com)
Arborists are cloning saplings from the stumps of the world's largest, strongest, and longest-lived trees -- felled for timber more than a century ago -- to create redwood "super groves" that can help fight climate change. "Using saplings made from the basal sprouts of these super trees to plant new groves in temperate countries around the world means the growths have a better chance than most to become giants themselves," reports Quartz. "Their ancestors grew up to 400 ft (122 m) tall and to 35 ft in diameter, after all, larger than the largest living redwood today, a giant sequoia in California's Sequoia National Park." From the report: Already, super saplings from the project are thriving in groves in Canada, England, Wales, France, New Zealand, and Australia. None of these locales are places where coastal redwoods grow naturally, but they all have cool temperatures and sufficient fog for the redwoods, which drink moisture from the air in summer rather than relying on rain. [David Milarch, founder of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, a U.S. nonprofit that propagates the world's largest trees] calls this "assisted migration." Last month, his organization planted another such grove in the Presidio in San Francisco, California. The park lies along the U.S. west's redwood corridor, which runs from Oregon to California, home to the stumps the saplings were cloned from. But 95% of giant growths there were cut long ago. Many of the redwoods along the corridor now are young trees. Milarch notes that as the local climate is getting hotter and less foggy, it's no longer as conducive to producing the mega growths of yore. Now, 75 saplings created from the basal sprouts of the most rugged and massive ancient tree stumps of the coastal region will grow in the Presidio. They may eventually become the hardiest and tallest trees around, if their ancestors are any indication.
on the rampage in New York. I warn you, it's not for the faint of heart (or stem).
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from just harvesting them all again for short term profit, that which rules tiny little human brains?
The particular trees are less important.
Morons opining about what's important without a specific clue or credential to their name is less important.
See one redwood, you've seen 'em all.
Can we plant a few million of them along our southern border?
There is trouble with the trees.
To de-mystify:
Scientists are planting samples of giant Californian Redwood Trees, around the world in appropriate climates.
Global warming means California is no longer the best environment for them, so they are hand picking locations where it is the best environment.
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But doesn't do shit for climate change.
I like having giant trees again, even though I will be dead long before they reach max size.
But these things grow slowly and are not the best at carbon capture.
Plant some bamboo or some other fast growing tree if you want that.
"None of these locales are places where coastal redwoods grow naturally...". Does that not make them imported invasive species and should be removed immediately from those areas?
They may eventually become the hardiest and tallest trees around, if their ancestors are any indication.
Tallest, yes, but hardy implies that they can endure difficult conditions. If they struggle to endure reduced fog in their native habitat this suggests that they are not particularly hardy.
Because redwoods actually require forest fires to properly open their pine cones. Without that heating the majority of the seeds will never properly germinate or be released from the cones, causing them to be eaten, decomposed, or be outcompeted long before they can become a threat to local flora.
Having said that, my real question is: 'Why aren't they selling cuttings of these in their store for local restoration in central/eastern California. You know, the NATURAL RANGE for Redwoods/Giant Sequoias? Personally I've got a coast redwood growing at home, as do the few people up in the foothills with their own redwoods. While not IMPOSSIBLE to find, the supply of giant sequoia and sierra redwood varieties are not the easiest to find. Coast redwoods, while seeds from the largest specimens might be difficult, are readily available in most nurseries around the state, and are very common in certain cities across the state.
home to the tallest trees... Kaure, Alerce, Sequoia/Redwood, Cedars of Lebanon... all chopped down by agriculturalists https://youtu.be/kb_t-sVVzF0?t...
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High hopes.
Big ambitions.
Clueless media hyperbole...
Dinosaurs will roam the Earth again before there are redwood "super groves" that can help fight climate change.
They take 3-4k years to grow, and from what I've seen of sequoia trees, they have few branches and few needles to photosynthesize CO2. Surely smaller. faster growing, more leaf/needle sprouting plants such as bamboo would be faster at sucking up CO2.
It's nice that someone is planning for after we're gone...
Jurassic Bark.
just as God and Freeman Dyson intended.
Can we agree that the assholes using the government shutdown as an opportunity to illegally fell Joshua trees should be shot on sight?
Another joke corrected! That's 2 or 3 out of /N^45 This is a great use of your time, I honestly have a lot more respect for you correcting Reagan quotes than lying about the environment or black people or Islam.
In before "CITATION NEEDED" -just click the name to see the comment history, pages and days and years of it if you remember back that far anymore lol.
Clearly, the intent of these biostitutes is to shift the planets climate to create tropical beach front properties around Greenland. This will dwarf the Alaskan and Louisiana land purchases by magnitudes. Teraforming V1.0 Mars!
There's 71 comments so far and not one Ian Malcolm quote...
1. Life uh.... finds a way.
2. Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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Planting huge forests with only one kind of softwood pine trees is a major fire hazard. More of these fire resistant trees (there are many other species that don't burn easily) are needed to make natural fire breaks.
25 years in San Francisco's Sunset district it is clear the hotter it is inland the foggier it is at the coast.
Seems like the author may have the fog thing backwards?
Doesn't this make the trees invasive species? Even if it is assisted.
They just started planting, but only tree of them...... ...
Now we only have to wait for 4000 years to see if it worked.
More global warming alarmism bollocks from 'Climatedot'. What a joke this website has become.
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I find it totally hilarious the article is exists. So, let's sum up a comparison to help put this into perspective; shall we?
We are unable to secure a border between two countries.
We are able to modify the atmosphere of an entire planet.
Sounds like a pseudo scientist "in the woodpile", LOL!!!
Yeah I've seen this movie before. Character growth was very slow, and the acting was wooden.
Can you imagine the awesome tree fort you could make in one of these though?
"OK Billy, we've planted the redwood for your fort. Now in just 500 years or so it will be ready!"