"The heaviest organism on Earth isn’t a whale or an elephant. It’s a tree—or rather, a system of over 40,000 clonal trees, all connected by their roots. Pando, a 13 million pound organism in central Utah, is believed to have sprouted toward the end of the last Ice Age.

But after thousands of years of thriving, Pando has run into trouble. A study published in PLOS One Wednesday features the first comprehensive examination of the entire 106 acres of clonal aspen forest, and it concludes that Pando isn’t growing. In fact, the forest has been failing to self-reproduce since at least 30 to 40 years ago.

“People are at the center of that failure,” said co-author Paul Rogers, the director of the Western Aspen Alliance at Utah State University who authored a similar study last year on a smaller portion of the Pando.



https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-biggest-organism-on-earth-is-dying-and-its-our-fau-1829818417

And a year after it dies, some BYU RM will get baptized for it. What's the big deal? </s>

It converted to Mormonism so now it thinks same-sex reproduction is bad.



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two words: Global Warming.


Repub spin: Climate Change, not attributable to human activities.

Save Pando!

I wonder if they could transplant some of her to a more ideal climate?

Wishful thinking?

It isn't because of climate change. It's from deer and cattle eating the younger saplings that were growing to replace the dying older trees.

It is man made. This problem would be easier to solve and closer to home if the locals and game wardens sprang into action.

I don't think many of us fully understand all the effects of GW/CC. temperature is important to all living things.

Even small changes can make a world of differences.

Whatever happened to Utahns with guns?