The Man Who Planted Trees   A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet
Type : epub |
Size : 3.46 MB |
English |

: THIS BOOK JUST MIGHT SAVE THE PLANET

"When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today."--Chinese proverb
 
Twenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan nurseryman with a penchant for hard living, had a vision: angels came to tell him that the earth was in trouble. Its trees were dying, and without them, human life was in jeopardy. The solution, they told him, was to clone the champion trees of the world--the largest, the hardiest, the ones that had survived millennia and were most resilient to climate change--and create a kind of Noah's ark of tree genetics. Without knowing if the message had any basis in science, or why he'd been chosen for this task, Milarch began his mission of cloning the world's great trees. Many scientists and tree experts told him it couldn't be done, but, twenty years later, his team has successfully cloned some of the world's oldest trees--among them giant redwoods and sequoias....

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