NATURE’S SECRETS – Students take part in cloning for conservation of champion trees

Their equipment list was unusual — carabiners, 200 feet of rope, strips of towels, water, clippers, tree harness, ice chest, plastic bags, notebooks, growth hormones, tin foil and cameras. This month, the New College Tree Climbing Club participated in an important scientific mission, and also a once-in-a-lifetime climbing assignment. They scaled the world’s largest known slash pine (Pinus elliottii), located on the campus of the New College of Florida, and cloned the tree as part of a national tree conservation project.
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