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Archangel Ancient Tree Archive

  • Tom Wall plays a tune with a 12-foot-tall sequoia tree sapling at Archangel Ancient Tree Archive in Copemish, Michigan. He’s using a plant music machine to turn the tree’s electrical impulses into musical notes. (credit: Michael Livingston / Points North)
    The Plant Musician
    Tom Wall is a West Michigan rock star who uses plants as bandmates. He uses a device to harness the electricity in plants, which then turns those impulses into musical notes. Tom insists the plants are talking to us through the music. But can they really do that?
  • Tom Wall plays a tune with a 12-foot-tall sequoia tree sapling at Archangel Ancient Tree Archive in Copemish, Michigan. He’s using a plant music machine to turn the tree’s electrical impulses into musical notes. (credit: Michael Livingston / Points North)
    The Plant Musician
    Michael Livingston
    Tom Wall is a West Michigan rock star who uses plants as bandmates. He uses a device to harness the electricity in plants, which then turns those impulses into musical notes. Tom insists the plants are talking to us through the music. But can they really do that?
  • Michigan Environment
    Cloned Sequoias Will Be Planted At Interlochen Center for the Arts
    Near the shores of the Lake Michigan sits a grove of sequoias. They stand on the site of a former Morton Salt factory, where men once mined salt brine out…
  • Tree Group In Manistee County Fights Climate Change With Old Trees
    A group from Manistee County dedicated to preserving old trees is planting redwoods and sequoias in Oregon this week. The trees cloned by the Archangel…