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For as much as 14,000 years, the aspen clone called Pando has spread across 106 Utah acres as roughly 47,000 trunks, 13 million pounds of wood and roots, and one male organism still trying to replace

Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah, covers 106 acres, weighs about 6,000 tons, and has been cloning itself from one seed for an estimated 14,000 years — possibly far longer. On a ridge above Fish Lake in south-central Utah, Pando looks like a forest until you learn where the organism really is. The grove covers 106 acres. It contains roughly 47,000 genetically identical quaking aspen stems. Together, the stems and roots ... [7394 chars]

For as much as 14,000 years, the aspen clone called Pando has spread across 106 Utah acres as roughly 47,000 trunks, 13 million pounds of wood and roots, and one male organism still trying to replace

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