Trees are amazing! > The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair

Trees are amazing! > The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/the-american-forests/305017/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/the-ame...