June 21, 2016 Dear Readers, It has been a month since I flew to California to join the Archangel Tree Climbing Expedition. In the weeks since, I have had time to reflect on the expedition and ponder the future. As I…
Planting Archangel Trees
During our expedition to California to harvest clone material from ancient giant sequoias and coast redwoods, I wanted to know what these cloned cuttings would look like as young saplings, even though it would take decades to see what they…
How Cuttings Become Trees
How do you cut off the tip of a branch and turn it into a tree with the same DNA? That’s something that the experts said couldn’t be done for trees thousands, even hundreds of years old. Yet Archangel Ancient…
May 28
May 28 was spent hiking in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, the northern-most in a long string of redwood parks that stretch up Northern California’s coast. A few miles inland from the ocean, the park is densely forested with huge ancient trees. In…
May 27
May 27 was spent traveling to Crescent City, CA in order to visit Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park. On the way to Crescent City, the expedition stopped at the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park on the Pacific Ocean to visit…
May 25 & 26
May 25 and 26 found the expedition at the Redwoods River Resort on Highway 101 in Northern California. Not only was this a beautiful location with an opportunity to rest up after the exhausting three days in the Sierra Nevada…
Video clips from the Stagg tree
Here are three video clips filmed by Jake Milarch from the top of the Stagg giant sequoia. Imagine being 200 feet high above terra firma and using one arm holding out a selfie stick to capture the experience digitally. That’s…
May 24
May 24 was the final day spent at Alder Creek grove in the Sierra Nevada Mountains as part of an expedition to collect and archive the genetics of some of the oldest, largest, and perhaps most important trees on earth…
May 23
May 23 was the second day spent at Alder Creek grove in the Sierra Nevada Mountains as part of an expedition to collect and archive the genetics of some of the oldest, largest, and perhaps most important trees on earth…
Pics & Clips from 200 ft up
Below are a series of pictures and video cllips taken by Jake Milarch and Bo Burke from the top of the giant sequoia that was climbed by over 16 people using an “elevator” technique that allowed one person to be…