Pando, the Trembling Giant

A whole Utah aspen forest is secretly one organism — thousands of trunks sharing a single root system, weighing millions of pounds and possibly thousands…

Why we kept this

One root system, one organism, an entire forest — the loneliest 'individual' on the planet is also the heaviest.

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