Taking Place In The Trees

If we can clone crabapples, maples, and chamaecyparis, why can’t we clone the enormous redwoods that stand as the world’s tallest trees?  Well, apparently we can. This article in Sunday’s New York Times (4/10/2011) explains how a group of arborists dedicated to propagating and planting clonal stands of coastal and giant sequoias, using tissue and cuttings harvested from the sprouting stumps of sequoias that have been cut down.   It’s a compelling read, has good pix, and might leave you with something to chew on.