Arborist looks to clone tree planted by John Muir MARTINEZ — The legend of California naturalist John Muir has achieved immortality. With luck, so will his one special tree. Only a seedling when transplanted by Muir from the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains to his East Bay orchard in the 1880s, the giant sequoia is now fatally infected.
June 20, 2013 - The Monterey County Herald
John Muir's tree may see new life through cloning A now-dying giant sequoia was a seedling in the early 1880s when John Muir carried it home from the Sierra Nevada to his East Bay home in Martinez. Cloning may save its presence at the John Muir National Historic Site.
June 20, 2013 - Alameda Times-Star
The Wildlands Conservancy offers Father’s Day activities for the family Imagine the bright sun growing larger as it rises on a distant horizon, a flock of Mallard ducklings following their mother up a narrowing stream and out of sight and, above the shaded canopy of a giant sequoia grove, a mountain range stretching to meet the sky.
June 14, 2013 - Yucaipa News Mirror