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The Man Who Planted Trees

Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by Jim Robbins

By Science News

Learn about a former gang member’s mission to clone trees to preserve their genes.

Spiegal & Grau, 2012, 216 p., $25

A version of this article appears in the June 30, 2012 issue of Science News.

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