The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet Robbins JimPaperback
The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet Robbins JimPaperback The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch's quest…
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The Man Who Planted Trees: A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet Robbins JimPaperback
The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch's quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystem--as well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference. Twenty years ago. "When is the best time to plant a tree?
Today."--Chinese proverbTwenty 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. The second best time? 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