David Milarch

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  David Milarch, president of Champion Tree Project International,
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  I commend you, Ian and Nancy, for helping the world grow stronger by planting these trees," said Milarch.
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  Milarch is internationally recognized as a leader in the cloning and planting of champion trees. He's been featured the past several years in a series of articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post. After Milarch speaks, the family hops in their jeep, which has been decorated for the occasion, champagne flutes in hand, and heads for "the spot." Ian leads his bride to look on as the children and others start digging the hole where the two champion trees - Norway maples, cloned from a tree from Empire, Michigan - will grow for years to come. The honored couple then each pick up a shovel and start digging along with their children, joking, and happy as they do so. Then, with the help of Milarch and his team, the trees are placed in their new homes. Ian holds up his glass and makes a toast. "To Nancy," he says.
  
  DEDICATED MARRIAGE TREES Ashken's words and actions mean a lot: He is the chief financial officer, director, and vice-chairman of the board at Jarden Corporation, based in Rye, New York - a Fortune 500 company. When he speaks, people have a tendency to listen. He could choose to dedicate himself to just about any cause - but one of his favorites is the marriage tree project.

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  Published on: 2/12/2009    Last Visited: 2/12/2009  

  The Champion Tree Project International is a non-profit group founded in 1996 by David Milarch, whose family has run a shade tree nursery business for several generations.

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  "In each case with the Mount Rushmore collection, the president actually planted or lived with -- - not some shirttail relationship or deal -- the tree," said David Milarch, co-founder of the Champion Tree Project and a nursery owner from Copemish, Mich. In the next five to six years, Mr. Milarch plans to plant the rest of the clones at the Capitol.
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  "David Milarch is perpetuating into perpetuity by cloning," Dr. Hendrickson said.
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  As Dr. Hendrickson's crew air-tilled the soil under the copper beech on a recent morning, adding dehydrated cow manure and nutrients, top-dressing it with wood chips and fancy mulch, Mr. Milarch strolled Sagamore Hill's 40 acres looking for other historic trees.Not only did Mr. Milarch agree to have the copper beech cloned for the Mount Rushmore project, he added other trees for a separate Teddy Roosevelt collection.
  
  "There is a tremendous need for tree care at this point in time or they are going to lose the last remaining trees," Mr. Milarch said, sadly noting the lawn's compacted soil, at least partly due to the 90,000 visitors each year who trample through."If something isn't done right now, this will be a parking lot."
  
  Mr. Milarch also selected an American elm planted by Roosevelt that showed no sign of the ravages of Dutch elm disease that wiped out all the other elms in the area, a multistemmed European beech choked with initials carved by visitors with pen knives; and the white oak, which predates Roosevelt's ownership of the property.
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  "These trees are the last living witnesses to the life of Teddy Roosevelt and his family," Mr. Milarch said.
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  "The genetic fingerprint in totality can live on forever, theoretically, for all history and scientific study and people to touch a piece of that history," Mr. Milarch said.
  
  The Champion Tree Project (www.championtreeproject.org) started with producing genetic duplicates of the largest specimens of 826 American tree species and branched into historic botany three years ago.So far 74 national champions have been cloned, at a cost of $15,000 to $20,000 each, and Mr. Milarch is working on a 3,500-year-old bald cypress near Orlando.Eventually, Mr. Milarch hopes identical offspring from the Mount Rushmore collection will also be planted in front of the four presidents' images in South Dakota.When he raises enough funds, plans are in the works for a complete presidential collection.Mr. Milarch said that would include a tree from President John Tyler's summer retreat in East Hampton.
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  From there Dr. Hendrickson will head to Old Westbury Gardens to take cuttings from a grand allée of aging silver-tipped linden trees that Mr. Milarch has also been asked to clone.
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  Mr. Milarch said the tissues would be grafted on root stock in specialized cloning labs he uses across the country.Sometimes the cuttings are sent to special nest chambers where soil, air temperature and humidity are controlled.Other times, tissues are dipped in a cocktail of rooting hormones or an air-layering method is used.Seedlings are not used because they are the result of two parent trees while the DNA of a clone comes from a single plant, Mr. Milarch explained.

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  Published on: 11/1/2007    Last Visited: 11/1/2007  

  On a foggy Tuesday in Marin County about 25 miles north of San Francisco, Milarch assembled a team of crack tree climbers who used ropes and harnesses to clamber more than 100 feet into the treetops at Roy's Redwoods Preserve.
  
  The workers clipped boughs from some of the preserve's oldest and tallest trees to get genetically pure samples of some of nature's ultimate survivors.
  
  Milarch, 58, said he believes these trees can provide the toughest possible stock for a kind of "genetic savings account" he hopes can be used to restore old-growth redwoods in their native range up and down the state.About 95 percent of the original forest has been cut down over the last few hundred years.
  
  "What does this tree's immune system have in it that it has survived when other trees haven't?"Milarch said, leaning against the massive, shaggy trunk of a redwood he's dubbed "Grandma," which he estimates is at least 800 years old.
  
  David Milarch is co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, based in Copemish, Mich.
  
  He and son Jared created the nonprofit in 1996 to preserve the genetics of what they say are "the last great trees of America."
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  As co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, Milarch has devoted the past 10 years of his life to collecting buds from so-called "champion trees" â€" the tallest, largest and oldest specimens of individual species.He also has taken samples from historic trees found on the estates of Teddy Roosevelt and George Washington.
  
  But Milarch calls redwoods a special case.Because coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process as well as by mating with other trees, a tree like Grandma could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree that first saw daylight 20,000 years ago, Milarch said.
  
  "If we're going to pick out the strongest, longest-lived genetics, this old gal's a survivor," he said.
  
  Horticulturists and genetic engineers plan to use the samples from the Marin County redwoods to see which of several techniques â€" some traditional, some cutting-edge â€" works best to reproduce the trees.Milarch has high hopes for the most advanced approach, known as tissue culturing, which creates exact genetic replicas by manipulating individual cells.

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  The species absorbs toxins from runoff before it reaches the groundwater, says David Milarch, founder of the Champion Tree Project.

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  [Caption: David Milarch, co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, looks over the first cutting taken from a 1,000-year-old redwood tree at Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve in San Geronimo, Calif., on Tuesday.Expert tree climbers went up three 1,000-year-old redwoods over 250-feet tall to collect genetic samples that will be used to create clones of the ancient trees which will be used to begin to re-establish old growth redwood forests around California. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)]
  
  Nearly 40 years later, the Michigan arborist has returned to the region to realize his dream of preserving and restoring the most ancient of these trees using the latest advances in genetic cloning.
  
  On a foggy Tuesday in Marin County about 25 miles north of San Francisco, Milarch assembled a team of crack tree climbers who used ropes and harnesses to clamber more than 100 feet into the treetops at Roy's Redwoods Preserve.
  
  The workers clipped boughs from some of the preserve's oldest and tallest trees to get genetically pure samples of some of nature's ultimate survivors.
  
  Milarch, 58, said he believes these trees can provide the toughest possible stock for a kind of "genetic savings account" he hopes can be used to restore old-growth redwoods in their native range up and down the state.About 95 percent of the original forest has been cut down over the last few hundred years.
  
  "What does this tree's immune system have in it that it has survived when other trees haven't?"Milarch said, leaning against the massive, shaggy trunk of a redwood he's dubbed "Grandma," which he estimates is at least 800 years old.
  
  David Milarch is co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, based in Copemish, Mich.
  
  He and son Jared created the nonprofit in 1996 to preserve the genetics of what they say are "the last great trees of America."
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  As co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, Milarch has devoted the past 10 years of his life to collecting buds from so-called "champion trees" -- the tallest, largest and oldest specimens of individual species.He also has taken samples from historic trees found on the estates of Teddy Roosevelt and George Washington.
  
  But Milarch calls redwoods a special case.Because coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process as well as by mating with other trees, a tree like Grandma could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree that first saw daylight 20,000 years ago, Milarch said.
  
  "If we're going to pick out the strongest, longest-lived genetics, this old gal's a survivor," he said.
  
  Horticulturists and genetic engineers plan to use the samples from the Marin County redwoods to see which of several techniques -- some traditional, some cutting-edge -- works best to reproduce the trees.Milarch has high hopes for the most advanced approach, known as tissue culturing, which creates exact genetic replicas by manipulating individual cells.

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  Published on: 10/30/2007    Last Visited: 11/1/2007  

  David Milarch, co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, looks over the first cutting taken from a 1,000-year-old Redwood tree at Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve in San Geronimo, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007.
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  On a foggy Tuesday in Marin County about 25 miles north of San Francisco, Milarch assembled a team of crack tree climbers who used ropes and harnesses to clamber more than 100 feet into the treetops at Roy's Redwoods Preserve.
  
  The workers clipped boughs from some of the preserve's oldest and tallest trees to get genetically pure samples of some of nature's ultimate survivors.
  
  Milarch, 58, said he believes these trees can provide the toughest possible stock for a kind of "genetic savings account" he hopes can be used to restore old-growth redwoods in their native range up and down the state.About 95 percent of the original forest has been cut down over the last few hundred years.
  
  "What does this tree's immune system have in it that it has survived when other trees haven't?"Milarch said, leaning against the massive, shaggy trunk of a redwood he's dubbed "Grandma," which he estimates is at least 800 years old.
  
  David Milarch is co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, based in Copemish, Mich.
  
  He and son Jared created the nonprofit in 1996 to preserve the genetics of what they say are "the last great trees of America."
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  As co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, Milarch has devoted the past 10 years of his life to collecting buds from so-called "champion trees" - the tallest, largest and oldest specimens of individual species.He also has taken samples from historic trees found on the estates of Teddy Roosevelt and George Washington.
  
  But Milarch calls redwoods a special case.Because coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process as well as by mating with other trees, a tree like Grandma could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree that first saw daylight 20,000 years ago, Milarch said.
  
  "If we're going to pick out the strongest, longest-lived genetics, this old gal's a survivor," he said.
  
  Horticulturists and genetic engineers plan to use the samples from the Marin County redwoods to see which of several techniques - some traditional, some cutting-edge - works best to reproduce the trees.Milarch has high hopes for the most advanced approach, known as tissue culturing, which creates exact genetic replicas by manipulating individual cells.

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  Published on: 10/30/2007    Last Visited: 10/31/2007  

  David Milarch, co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, looks over the first cutting taken from a 1,000-year-old Redwood tree at Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve in San Geronimo, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007.
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  On a foggy Tuesday in Marin County about 25 miles north of San Francisco, Milarch assembled a team of crack tree climbers who used ropes and harnesses to clamber more than 100 feet into the treetops at Roy's Redwoods Preserve.
  
  The workers clipped boughs from some of the preserve's oldest and tallest trees to get genetically pure samples of some of nature's ultimate survivors.
  
  Milarch, 58, said he believes these trees can provide the toughest possible stock for a kind of "genetic savings account" he hopes can be used to restore old-growth redwoods in their native range up and down the state.About 95 percent of the original forest has been cut down over the last few hundred years.
  
  "What does this tree's immune system have in it that it has survived when other trees haven't?"Milarch said, leaning against the massive, shaggy trunk of a redwood he's dubbed "Grandma," which he estimates is at least 800 years old.
  
  David Milarch is co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, based in Copemish, Mich.
  
  He and son Jared created the nonprofit in 1996 to preserve the genetics of what they say are "the last great trees of America."
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  As co-founder of the Champion Tree Project, Milarch has devoted the past 10 years of his life to collecting buds from so-called "champion trees" the tallest, largest and oldest specimens of individual species.He also has taken samples from historic trees found on the estates of Teddy Roosevelt and George Washington.
  
  But Milarch calls redwoods a special case.Because coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process as well as by mating with other trees, a tree like Grandma could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree that first saw daylight 20,000 years ago, Milarch said.
  
  "If we're going to pick out the strongest, longest-lived genetics, this old gal's a survivor," he said.
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  Milarch has high hopes for the most advanced approach, known as tissue culturing, which creates exact genetic replicas by manipulating individual cells.

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  Published on: 8/14/2008    Last Visited: 8/15/2008  

  Living in Grosse Pointe was compared to the Garden of Eden last Thursday as David Milarch, founder of the Champion Tree Project, visited the home of Dr. ...tell me more>>

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  Published on: 8/13/2008    Last Visited: 8/14/2008  

  David Milarch of the Champion Trees Project takes samples from an apparent direct descendant of the original tree of Hippocrates in a Warren backyard Wednesday. (AP photo)

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