Ancient Trees. Inner-City Kids. One Earth Day.
Clones of the world’s oldest trees. Planted by youth who’ve never left the city.
On April 22, 100 young people from Watts and Antelope Valley will plant hundreds of champion tree seedlings at a wolf sanctuary above Los Angeles — restoring land scorched by wildfire, and beginning a rite of passage that will outlast all of us.
These aren’t ordinary seedlings. They’re clones of ancient redwoods and sequoias — trees that capture carbon up to 6,000 times more effectively than a typical tree.
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A Rite of Passage 165 Years in the Making
This Earth Day, 100 young people from Watts and Antelope Valley will plant hundreds of seedlings cloned from some of the world’s oldest trees on the grounds of a wolf sanctuary in the mountains above Los Angeles.
A Conversation with David Milarch on In the Garden
Ron Wilson of WKRC 44 in Cincinnati, Ohio, invited our David Milarch as a guest on his popular iHeart Radio talk show, In the Garden, on February 28, 2026. They discuss the important work of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and why it matters.
Our Detroit Sequoia Planting on NBC’s Sunday Today!
Archangel partnered with Arboretum Detroit with the help of inner-city children to plant a forest of ancient Giant Sequoias in Detroit’s Poletown East neighborhood.
