Mich. Arborist Looks to Clone Redwoods

By MARCUS WOHLSEN, Associated Press Writer, General Science / Biology

David Milarch, co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, looks over the first cutting taken from a 1,000-year-old Redwood tree at Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve in San Geronimo, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007. Expert tree climbers went up three 1,000-year-old Redwoods over 250-feet tall to collect genetic samples that will be used to create clones of the ancient trees which will be used to begin to re-establish old growth Redwood forests around California.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

(AP) -- When David Milarch first visited Northern California in 1968, he thought he would see avenues of coast redwoods 100 miles long. What he found instead, he said, was a "moonscape."

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