while people have asked me you know
what’s it like for you David when you
you know what’s it like when you walk
through one of these groves of
old-growth redwoods by far hands down
the most spiritual profound conscious
altering in a positive way experience
for me is every single time I walk
through a redwood forest
I can’t say that I understand all of it
I’ve been given some insights that help
the average person understand wines are
critically important it’s the most
marvelous experience I can get it
nowhere else on this planet that I found
I also feel tremendous sorrow tremendous
sorrow that 95% of them were killed and
we didn’t even know what they do to
anchor our ability as human beings to be
able to live on this plan we killed him
that’s the badness it’s my job when I
walk through there to yell out to those
trees to hold those trees and say I’m
here to do everything in my power on
earth to bring all the human beings and
all the help that I can to put this back
to put back every single tree that was
cut down and killed that’s what it’s
like for me and you know what I’m going
to do it
the redwood trees of California are
probably the oldest of living things the
redwoods that grow along the coast lived
to be 2000 years old so down they come
some of the world’s oldest biggest and
tallest trees trees that grow over 350
feet high their history goes back
millions of years to the time of the
dinosaurs but when we look at stacks of
redwood lumber we may well be reminded
of its ancient history for this is
lumber from a species of tree that has
survived for millions of years
trees that live to be two and four
thousand years old the tallest biggest
oldest trees in the world
we can rebuild old-growth forests
utilizing the genetics the largest
oldest strongest proven through the test
of time
giants that will help us turn this
scourge that we face this threat climate
change around the red ones aren’t
nothing more than a model here we have
one of the very top fastest-growing
species of trees ten foot a year and
something that’s growing very very
quickly
phytoremediation sir means pull out of
the air tremendous amounts of excess co2
just an average coast redwood is a
thousand tons a thousand tons that’s a
lot of carbon as we’re losing the vast
majority of our old-growth trees on this
planet the genes of those old-growth
trees need to be preserved like Noah’s
Ark and utilizing them to reforest the
planet when we really need it so we set
off on that quest and we did it we did
find the 20 largest living coast
redwoods in this 100 mile corridor from
just over Oregon down here we kept
running into these stumps over and over
and over again these trees are dead and
gone there’s nothing you can do it’s a
tragedy but gosh we just have to learn
to live with it until we learn about
these right here beetle sprouts
okay this tree is not dead it’s a long
ways from dead
in fact it’s almost impossible a killer
redwood you can burn them like they have
here if they burnt this out trying to
get rid of it you cut them down burn
them 140 years ago throw everything in
the world and you can’t kill it but
nobody recognized that the tree lives on
because when you threaten its life from
its roots it throws off things folk
basil sprouts so the exact genetic
fingerprint of this stump and any other
stump in this whole region is in the
basil sprouts
I have a real affinity for these stumps
because I went for the hospital and died
of renal failure legally died of renal
failure but a number of minutes later
like these stumps that were giving up
for dead like I was given up for dead
surprise surprise they came back to life
so we went and found the biggest stump
right here we found groves of redwoods
that are 30 foot plus in diameter it’s
incredible 30 foot across that’s the
width of most people’s ranch type house
so Jake goes hey Dad
would it be cool if we can bring this
back to life so we took some cuttings
off of this we snip some cuts Jake did
and we flew them back overnight back to
kovash Michigan and tried to micro
propagate these things ensures the world
ouvert our micro propagation in tissue
culture lab the main goals for that was
basically research and development on
how to make a million trees to send
everywhere what this is is taking very
small pieces off of very small cuttings
and then exponentially multiplying them
through jars and reproduction hormones
so you could imagine if we use the
multiplication hormones you’re going to
grow many types out of one top then you
take those pieces then divide those so
then it becomes exponential so imagine
large warehouses with this tissue
culture going on I mean we could grow
millions and millions and millions of
trees
the Mellark family’s been in the tree
business for over four generations so
we’ve been in this for a long time we’re
not going anywhere this is just kind of
taken it into the next millennia almost
making a hip again and starting from the
very beginning we used to purchase some
trees and we used to go collect some
native trees but now we’re literally
making trees in the United States 98% of
our old-growth forests have been cut
down in California where these growth
the only range in the world of these 96%
of all coast redwoods have been cut down
there’s only 4% left maybe the genetics
of this ancient giant tree might be
valuable maybe we should keep a few she
has most people know California is going
through a thousand-year drought to
protect and safeguard these genetics
we’ve picked the most ideal place with
fog cool temperatures an abundance of
rain in Southern Oregon to make sure
these trees and their genetics don’t get
lost here in Southern Oregon through a
program called assisted migration we’re
moving these trees north where it is
slightly cooler the fog still remains in
effect every day which these trees have
gotten used to for millions of years and
through assisted migration we’re moving
them to a climate that’s more conducive
to the one that they’ve that they’ve
thrived in for for millennia
here’s one of our tags you know what
this tree is the Barrett stump that we
filmed yesterday with the playground
built on it this tree right here is the
world’s first column with 3,000 year old
redwood
and it is that tree now this will join
several hundred others as a model to the
world that yes we can fix the
destruction we can go back and we can
re-establish and rebuild the old-growth
force that we’ve lost kids just love
this project when they’re playing the
little clone redwoods and big trees they
just have so much fun they know they can
be a part of something bigger
planting nurturing things instead of
destruction and it’s the reason that I
pretty much started this thing I thought
you know the kids could really show
people that this is fun this is easy if
we build a model and show the world
what’s possible and if we change our
thinking to help Mother Nature to work
with Mother Nature not completely
destroy Mother Nature I think our
great-grandchildren and Beyond will be
grateful that we did
it’s my life’s work
let’s plan some more
you
you
of my this to the ground they read
be on mom
catch on for the song bear
we come
I’m sorry
ding and the bone
second chances we’d all be
you
what’s it like for you David when you
you know what’s it like when you walk
through one of these groves of
old-growth redwoods by far hands down
the most spiritual profound conscious
altering in a positive way experience
for me is every single time I walk
through a redwood forest
I can’t say that I understand all of it
I’ve been given some insights that help
the average person understand wines are
critically important it’s the most
marvelous experience I can get it
nowhere else on this planet that I found
I also feel tremendous sorrow tremendous
sorrow that 95% of them were killed and
we didn’t even know what they do to
anchor our ability as human beings to be
able to live on this plan we killed him
that’s the badness it’s my job when I
walk through there to yell out to those
trees to hold those trees and say I’m
here to do everything in my power on
earth to bring all the human beings and
all the help that I can to put this back
to put back every single tree that was
cut down and killed that’s what it’s
like for me and you know what I’m going
to do it
the redwood trees of California are
probably the oldest of living things the
redwoods that grow along the coast lived
to be 2000 years old so down they come
some of the world’s oldest biggest and
tallest trees trees that grow over 350
feet high their history goes back
millions of years to the time of the
dinosaurs but when we look at stacks of
redwood lumber we may well be reminded
of its ancient history for this is
lumber from a species of tree that has
survived for millions of years
trees that live to be two and four
thousand years old the tallest biggest
oldest trees in the world
we can rebuild old-growth forests
utilizing the genetics the largest
oldest strongest proven through the test
of time
giants that will help us turn this
scourge that we face this threat climate
change around the red ones aren’t
nothing more than a model here we have
one of the very top fastest-growing
species of trees ten foot a year and
something that’s growing very very
quickly
phytoremediation sir means pull out of
the air tremendous amounts of excess co2
just an average coast redwood is a
thousand tons a thousand tons that’s a
lot of carbon as we’re losing the vast
majority of our old-growth trees on this
planet the genes of those old-growth
trees need to be preserved like Noah’s
Ark and utilizing them to reforest the
planet when we really need it so we set
off on that quest and we did it we did
find the 20 largest living coast
redwoods in this 100 mile corridor from
just over Oregon down here we kept
running into these stumps over and over
and over again these trees are dead and
gone there’s nothing you can do it’s a
tragedy but gosh we just have to learn
to live with it until we learn about
these right here beetle sprouts
okay this tree is not dead it’s a long
ways from dead
in fact it’s almost impossible a killer
redwood you can burn them like they have
here if they burnt this out trying to
get rid of it you cut them down burn
them 140 years ago throw everything in
the world and you can’t kill it but
nobody recognized that the tree lives on
because when you threaten its life from
its roots it throws off things folk
basil sprouts so the exact genetic
fingerprint of this stump and any other
stump in this whole region is in the
basil sprouts
I have a real affinity for these stumps
because I went for the hospital and died
of renal failure legally died of renal
failure but a number of minutes later
like these stumps that were giving up
for dead like I was given up for dead
surprise surprise they came back to life
so we went and found the biggest stump
right here we found groves of redwoods
that are 30 foot plus in diameter it’s
incredible 30 foot across that’s the
width of most people’s ranch type house
so Jake goes hey Dad
would it be cool if we can bring this
back to life so we took some cuttings
off of this we snip some cuts Jake did
and we flew them back overnight back to
kovash Michigan and tried to micro
propagate these things ensures the world
ouvert our micro propagation in tissue
culture lab the main goals for that was
basically research and development on
how to make a million trees to send
everywhere what this is is taking very
small pieces off of very small cuttings
and then exponentially multiplying them
through jars and reproduction hormones
so you could imagine if we use the
multiplication hormones you’re going to
grow many types out of one top then you
take those pieces then divide those so
then it becomes exponential so imagine
large warehouses with this tissue
culture going on I mean we could grow
millions and millions and millions of
trees
the Mellark family’s been in the tree
business for over four generations so
we’ve been in this for a long time we’re
not going anywhere this is just kind of
taken it into the next millennia almost
making a hip again and starting from the
very beginning we used to purchase some
trees and we used to go collect some
native trees but now we’re literally
making trees in the United States 98% of
our old-growth forests have been cut
down in California where these growth
the only range in the world of these 96%
of all coast redwoods have been cut down
there’s only 4% left maybe the genetics
of this ancient giant tree might be
valuable maybe we should keep a few she
has most people know California is going
through a thousand-year drought to
protect and safeguard these genetics
we’ve picked the most ideal place with
fog cool temperatures an abundance of
rain in Southern Oregon to make sure
these trees and their genetics don’t get
lost here in Southern Oregon through a
program called assisted migration we’re
moving these trees north where it is
slightly cooler the fog still remains in
effect every day which these trees have
gotten used to for millions of years and
through assisted migration we’re moving
them to a climate that’s more conducive
to the one that they’ve that they’ve
thrived in for for millennia
here’s one of our tags you know what
this tree is the Barrett stump that we
filmed yesterday with the playground
built on it this tree right here is the
world’s first column with 3,000 year old
redwood
and it is that tree now this will join
several hundred others as a model to the
world that yes we can fix the
destruction we can go back and we can
re-establish and rebuild the old-growth
force that we’ve lost kids just love
this project when they’re playing the
little clone redwoods and big trees they
just have so much fun they know they can
be a part of something bigger
planting nurturing things instead of
destruction and it’s the reason that I
pretty much started this thing I thought
you know the kids could really show
people that this is fun this is easy if
we build a model and show the world
what’s possible and if we change our
thinking to help Mother Nature to work
with Mother Nature not completely
destroy Mother Nature I think our
great-grandchildren and Beyond will be
grateful that we did
it’s my life’s work
let’s plan some more
you
you
of my this to the ground they read
be on mom
catch on for the song bear
we come
I’m sorry
ding and the bone
second chances we’d all be
you
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