The City of Kenmore has received 10 new residents – world famous residents with foliage.

In January 2017, Archangel Ancient Tree Archive contacted the City of Kenmore to donate clones and offspring of Coast Redwood trees taken from multi-thousand-year-old trees.

The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive is a non-profit organization that locates and propagates the world’s largest and most iconic trees. The organization has produced and planted more than 300,000 individual trees with a wide reach across seven countries.

Increasing global climate awareness, the non-profit group has begun to garner attention, having several articles were written about their work as well as the production of an award-winning short film “Moving the Giants – An Urgent Plan to Save the Planet.”

Kenmore has received 10 of these individual young trees from Michigan. Currently standing approximately 15-20 inches tall, the specimens will grow to be about 100-150 feet in height and up to four feet in diameter in 50 years.

The trees were planted in four of Kenmore’s city parks: Rhododendron, Wallace Swamp Creek, Northshore Summit and Linwood Park.

For more information, visit the project website at http://plantagroveoftrees.com/puget-sound-communities/kenmore/.

These saplings can grow to become 100-150 feet tall. Contributed/City of Kenmore