'Archiving Supertrees' To Save Old Growth Forests

When Europeans first came to North America, one of the largest primeval forests in the world covered much of the continent. Experts say a squirrel could have traveled from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River without touching the ground. But only about 3 percent of America's native old-growth forest remains...[The Champion Tree Project] hey are searching out the largest tree of each species and taking cuttings of new growth to make copies ? genetic clones ? of the giants. With tissue culture and grafting, they have replicated 52 of the 827 living giants and are planting the offspring in what they call 'archival living libraries.'"

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan