Mary Anna (10 Dec 2012)
"Ancient Cloned Trees Planted to Begin New Forest of Redwoods (photo essay)"

 

http://photos.oregonlive.com/photo-essay/2012/12/ancient_trees_cloned_to_begin.html

Next Tuesday, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive will plant clones grown from the Fieldbrook stump -- along with other rooted cuttings from 28 of California's largest, oldest coast redwoods and giant sequoias -- on four foggy acres south of Port Orford.

The planting is Archangel's first attempt to re-create an old-growth forest from its Noah's Ark storehouse of rooted cuttings from "champion" trees, the tallest, oldest and largest samples of each species it can find. The group picked Port Orford, just north of the coast redwood's main range, as a hedge in case global warming weakens the trees down south.