NYC Cloning Historical Trees for Future

By RICHARD PYLE, Associated Press Writer

A young man walks by a 100 year-old beech tree in Central Park in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008. The city of New York has contracted a Connecticut-based tree company to snip off 6- to 12-inch sections of the tree which will be cloned at a scientific tree nursery in eastern Oregon. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

(AP) -- Squat, homely, dwarfed by stately oaks and poplars, and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love.

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