Archangel Ancient Tree Archive has created 75 ancient Redwood tree clones using Redwood stumps as old as 3,000 years. Founded in 1994, the California nonprofit group managed to create a tree embryo, then raise it for 2.5 years, before planting it in the Presidio forest refuge near San Francisco in December 2018.
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The group’s stated mission is to reforest vulnerable ecosystems with a living archive of ancient tree specimens, thereby preserving and restoring some of the diversity of “old growth” forests and sequestering more carbon.