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David Milarch
Co-Founder Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
Co-Founder Champion Tree Project
PO Box 11
Copemish, MI
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READERS DIGEST RECOMMENDS YOU READ THIS BOOK !!!Subject: The Big Idea: Clone Ancient Trees to Save Planet Earth
Jan 08, 2013
The Big Idea
: Clone Ancient Trees to Save Planet Earth
David Milarch is a pioneering spirit who believes that cloning huge ancient trees—such as the remaining Giant Sequoias in California— is the key to saving the planet. He explains: “Because they are survivors—several hundred to several thousand years old—they hold the entire genetic history of their species and they are one of the key components of ecosystem structure. For hundreds of years man has been logging the biggest, strongest trees, so that today our forests are left with the genetic runts. Planting clones of the “champion” trees will strengthen the gene pool of our forests. We need to plant the strongest, hardiest trees, and also the most adaptable ones—those that will survive the changes in our climate.”A former shade tree nurseryman, Milarch has persuaded a fair number of previously skeptical scientists. “Experts told me that it was impossible to clone the ancient trees—that cloning a 3,000-year-old redwood would be akin to asking a 75-year-old woman to give birth,” he says. “But we succeeded. Right now we have a many thousands are growing in a propagation facility in Copemish, Michigan. Each one of the babies is a world’s first.”Here’s a very cool video of Milarch describing the project at a TED talk.And here’s an inside-view video the new clones of 3000-year-old trees.If you’d still like to know more, check out The Man Who Planted Trees, a biography of Milarch by Jim Robbins that makes for fascinating reading, not just about the science but about how one man with a vision and a passion acted on his beliefs.Reader recommendation: The Man Who Planted TreesBy Carolyn Moody, Brookings, Ore. / January 8, 2013The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins enlightens you regarding the important role trees play in creating a healthy planet. He explains that we need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital roles they play in our planet’s future… http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Readers-picks/2013/0108/Reader-recommendation-The-Man-Who-Planted-TreesDer Spiegel ("The Mirror") is a German weekly news magazine with a weekly circulation of more than one million.1-20-13Archangel of the ForestThe oldest trees on earth are threatened. Activists clone and disseminate the giants.Will the young plants grow to the sky?....A few weeks ago 248 trees were planted on a north slope of Ocean Mountain Ranch in Port Orford in the U.S. state of Oregon. "It was a great day for the trees, "recalls Terry Mock, trustee for the ranch…. The plants that Mock and his helpers planted in the damp earth are genetically identical with 3000 year old ancient redwood trees on the U.S. West Coast…. The planting is part of a project to increase the largest and oldest trees on the Earth. "We are building a living library to preserve the genetic information from these trees, "says David Milarch, Co-founder of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive….Dozens of spindly baby trees—perfect genetic copies of the grandest sequoias and redwoods that ever lived—were planted last month on four foggy and remote acres on the edge of the Pacific Ocean in southern Oregon. Their job: to save the world… Read moreTHE MOST WESTERLY WEEKLY IN THE CONTIGUOUS 48 STATESDecember 26, 2012(Front Page)Mayor’s speech at POCSA eventOn December 21st, 2012, the people of Port Orford gathered at the Savoy Theatre to celebrate Port Orford and sustainability.\THE MOST WESTERLY WEEKLY IN THE CONTIGUOUS 48 STATESDecember 19th, 2012Promoting sustainability in Port OrfordStakeholders in the Port Orford Community Stewardship Area (POCSA) will hold a conference, film and music forum at the Savoy Theatre starting at 5PM on Friday, December 21 to promote sustainability on the southern Oregon coast. The public event will include presentations from Port Orford Mayor Jim Auborn and newly elected Curry County Commissioners Susan Brown and David Smith. There will be a gifting of one of the world’s first clones from a champion redwood tree to the local Port Orford/Langlois High School from Ocean Mountain Ranch and Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. Free admission is open to the public in exchange for voluntary donations to benefit the non-profit efforts of the POCSA.In 2006, the local non-profit Port Orford Ocean Resource Team (POORT), began steps to guide the community in a direction of Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM). The boundaries of POCSA were determined through identification of the ecosystem that the community is a part of and relies on. First, POORT mapped and identified the historic fishing grounds and then included the terrestrial watershed of these fishing grounds. The result was a 1,320 square mile comprehensive and holistic depiction of the entire land-sea ecosystem surrounding Port Orford. The ecosystem sustains this unique community which is now being called a model for other rural communities around the world.EBM is an integrated approach that considers the entire ecosystem, including humans and elements integral to ecosystem function. Informed by both natural and social sciences, EBM is intended to restore our natural and cultural heritage by sustaining diverse, productive, resilient ecosystems and the services they provide. This will ultimately promote the long-term health, security, and well-being of our community. Among other things, EBM specifically recognizes that humans are part of ecosystems and that healthy ecosystems are essential to human welfare. The goals of the 12-21-12 event are to increase participant knowledge, decrease duplicate efforts, and encourage partnerships within the area in order to share resources. These goals are important to the Port Orford community because of the well-established belief that our common good and well-being is directly connected to our natural resources. Careful management of these environmental resources provides the POCSA with a foundation for a holistic triple-bottom-line approach to a people-planet-profit philosophy for community sustainability going forward.Non-profit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and local partner Ocean Mountain Ranch are planting champion redwood and sequoia tree clones in the POCSA in order to preserve the genetics of the largest and oldest livings organisms on Earth. This tree planting is in concert with an effort to assist with the migration of the species during coming climate change. In addition to preserving champion tree genetics for future research, the planned planting at the local high school will provide a focal point for ongoing model terrestrial sustainability initiatives within the local community stewardship area and surrounding Curry County, Oregon -- a rare place on earth where beautiful wild and scenic rivers tumble down through steep canyons and the tallest and largest carbon-sequestering forests in the world on their way to the mighty Pacific Ocean.12-21-12In ThePort Orford Community Stewardship Area(Beta v.1)
More Information About POCSA
- Port Orford Stewardship Community Area (Map and Overview)
- Definition of Port Orford Community Stewardship Area (City of Port Orford)
- Oregon Fishermen Protect Ocean, Way of Life (Ocean Frontiers)
- SeaWeb Assists EBM Communications and Outreach in Port Orford, Oregon (SeaWeb)
- Southern Oregon Coast Mixing Nature, Tradition and Economics for a Sustainable Future (Triple Pundit)
- SLDI Project Goes Carbon Negative (Triple Pundit)
- “You are brilliant, and the Earth is hiring” (Triple Pundit)
- A Sustainable Development Effort One Hundred Years in the Making (Triple Pundit)
- The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship (Ocean Frontiers)
- Sustainability (Port Orford Sustainable Seafood)
- Ecosystem Based Management Comes to Southern Oregon Port (Triple Pundit)
- Will The Country Follow Its Ocean Pioneers? (Ecotrust Blog)
- Co-ops: Sustainable Solution for Economic Growth (Triple Pundit)
The 21st century will overturn many of our previously-held assumptions about civilization. The challenges and opportunities land development stakeholders now face – to fulfill the needs of society and achieve a favorable return on investment without harming the environment – have vast implications on the sustainability of our communities around the world.--
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