Hosted a meeting yesterday about a potential timber project, most likely involving David Milarch, Champion Trees Project.
"Opened" the Times this AM (Online) and there was David, front page...
Reaching for the Sky: A California Project to Clone Redwoods - New York Times:
"The word “cloning,” in this context, may be misleading, in that it is nothing as arcane or difficult as cloning mammals. It simply means growing a genetically identical plant. With redwoods, this is accomplished by dipping a cutting four to six inches long into a growth-hormone cocktail and then planting it in a temperature- and moisture-controlled fog chamber. Nine hundred cuttings have already been made, 300 of each of three trees sampled. It takes 20 cuttings that have grown into seedling to reforest one acre."
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