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The secret life of ancient trees

by JoAnna Wendel
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Healthy green trees in a forest of old spruce, fir and pine. Spruce trees down the hill to coniferou...
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Ancient, woody elders grace our Earth.

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There’s Jomon Sugi, the 2,500-year-old Japanese Cyprus on Japan’s Yakushima island.

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