{"id":707,"date":"2010-11-22T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/wild\/?p=707"},"modified":"2010-11-22T15:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T22:14:39","slug":"pando-the-trembling-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Pando, the Trembling Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/pando-the-trembling-giant\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/images\/place\/pando-the-trembling-giant.10607.large_slideshow.jpg\" \/>Pando, the Trembling Giant located in Sigurd Cemetery, Utah, US | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the Fishlake National Forest in Utah, a giant has lived quietly for the past 80,000 years. The Trembling Giant, or Pando, is a enormous grove of quaking aspens that takes the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153forest as a single organism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d metaphor and literalizes it: the grove really is a single organism. Each of the approximately <font style=\"background-color: #9bbb59\">47,000<\/font> or so trees in the grove is genetically identical and all the trees share a single root system. While many trees spread through flowering and sexual reproduction, quaking aspens usually reproduce asexually, by sprouting new trees from the expansive lateral root of the parent. The individual trees aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t individuals, but stems of a massive single clone, and this clone is truly massive. Spanning 107 acres and weighing 6,615 tons, Pando was once thought to be the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest organism (now usurped by thousand-acre fungal mats in Oregon), and is almost certainly the most massive. In terms of other superlatives, the more optimistic estimates of Pando\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s age have it as over one million years old, which would easily make it the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oldest living organism.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the future of the giant appears grim. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [read the rest at the link]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/place\/pando-the-trembling-giant\">Pando, the Trembling Giant located in Sigurd Cemetery, Utah, US | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pando, the Trembling Giant located in Sigurd Cemetery, Utah, US | Atlas Obscura | Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations In the Fishlake National Forest in Utah, a giant has lived quietly for the past 80,000 years. The Trembling Giant, or Pando, is a enormous grove of quaking aspens that takes the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153forest as a single &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pando, the Trembling Giant<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utah","category-wildlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}