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ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST AND MOST MASSIVE LIVING ORGANISMS IS A GROVE OF
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In the Fishlake National Forest in Utah, a giant has lived quietly for thousands
of years, and may be one of the oldest living things on the planet.

The Trembling Giant, or Pando, is an enormous grove of quaking aspens that take
the “forest as a single organism” metaphor and makes it literal: the grove
really is a single organism. Each of the approximately 47,000 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’t individuals but stems of
a massive single clone, and this clone is truly massive. “Pando” is a Latin word
that translates to “I spread.”



Spanning 107 acres and weighing 6,615 tons, Pando was once thought to be the
world’s 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’s age have it as over one million years old,
which would easily make it one of the world’s oldest living organisms. Some of
the trees in the forest are over 130 years old.

Unfortunately, the future of the giant appears grim. According to Paul Rogers,
an ecologist at Utah State University, the Trembling Giant is in danger. While
the mature stems of Pando routinely die from the eternal problems of pests and
drought, the regenerative roots of the organism that are responsible for Pando’s
resilience are under attack as well. Rogers reported a marked absence of
juvenile and young stems to replace the older trunks, blaming overgrazing by
deer and elk. Without new growth to replace the old, the Trembling Giant is
vulnerable to a catastrophic sudden withering and shrinking.

The quaking aspen is named for its leaves, which stir easily in even a gentle
breeze and produce a fluttering sound with only the slightest provocation. The
effect of this in Pando—multiplied over the tens of thousands of trees and
hundreds of acres–can be unnerving, giving a real sense of life to the ancient,
dying, trembling giant. One of the most popular seasons to visit Pando is fall
when the leaves turn bright yellow.



KNOW BEFORE YOU GO



Located one mile southwest of Fish Lake on SR-25. Doctor Creek Recreation Site
is a US National Forest Service Campground located within Pando, if you want to
spend a night inside a giant, ancient organism.




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 * Discover Magazine: The Trembling Giant:
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 * Deseret News: Central Utah's Pando, world's largest living thing, is
   threatened, scientists say" (October 2010):
   http://www.deseretnews.com/mobile/article/700071982/Central-Utahs-Pando-worlds-largest-living-thing-is-threatened-scientists-say.html
 * Backpacker: Natural Wonders: Pando Aspen Colony, UT:
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