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| Fieldbrook Redwood Stump is the world’s largest stump. It is 32.5 feet wide, probably 2,000 years old and a base for a tree that may have topped 400 feet. The Fieldbrook redwood was cut down to settle a bar bet where a businessman from Britain claimed he could find a single cross-cut section of timber that could seat 40 dinner guests at one time. And for that reason, it was sadly chopped down in the 1890s and a huge slice of trunk brought back overseas. The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive will plant clones grown from the Fieldbrook stump along with other rooted cuttings from 28 of California’s largest, oldest coast redwoods and giant sequoias on four foggy acres south of Port Orford. |
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