Snarkie
02-04-2015, 12:44 PM
Hi everybody-
I just wanted to take a minute and tell you about my main passion in life, dawn redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). Dawn redwoods were thought to be extinct in North America for around 35 million years, and globally for five million years, until the discovery of around 1,200 trees in a remote section of China in 1941. Several seed-gathering expeditions brought back thousands of seeds which were shared with botanists around the world.
In 1995, I created the Crescent Ridge dawn Redwoods Preserve, which is the only eastern redwood forest in America and the sole wild dawn redwood forest outside of China. To date, there are over 200 dawns growing in a natural setting. This is a forest that has not existed in the Blue Ridge Mountains for 30+ million years.
Please feel free to follow the link in my sig to learn more about these amazing survivors, and the scope of the project.
I just wanted to take a minute and tell you about my main passion in life, dawn redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides). Dawn redwoods were thought to be extinct in North America for around 35 million years, and globally for five million years, until the discovery of around 1,200 trees in a remote section of China in 1941. Several seed-gathering expeditions brought back thousands of seeds which were shared with botanists around the world.
In 1995, I created the Crescent Ridge dawn Redwoods Preserve, which is the only eastern redwood forest in America and the sole wild dawn redwood forest outside of China. To date, there are over 200 dawns growing in a natural setting. This is a forest that has not existed in the Blue Ridge Mountains for 30+ million years.
Please feel free to follow the link in my sig to learn more about these amazing survivors, and the scope of the project.