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A Forest Project in Pennsylvania Growing Dawn Redwoods Our Gofundme link https://www.gofundme.com/scpdp8e4 Dawn Redwoods can attain heights approaching 200 feet. Our site of app 250 acres in Bradford County Pa will offer botanists and the general public a chance to see and study the growth and habits of this tree here in the Pennsylvania. It is not known the ultimate heights these trees will attain. Eastern US locations offer optimum growing conditions for the Dawn Redwood. Perhaps, in the near future , the tree grove will have specimens that could rival Coast Redwoods. We are asking for donations to help establish this Redwood Forest. Each tree will cost us about $10 for a 1-2 ft potted redwood which we will plant on this site. The trees will be planted app 700 per acre. A $100 donation will allow us to buy 10 trees. We have volunteers who will help us plant or you too can help plant. The plants will be established each year in the spring and fall. We will use seedling the spring that we grow out in pots. The potted plants will have a higher transplant success rate than bareroot. We will also have a program where you can buy seedlings or potted plants and plant them yourself on the site. Scout troops are also invited to help. We look forward to crowd sourcing the development of this forest. The site will also have a memorial tree planting area where loved ones can be remembered with a memorial tree. The dawn redwoods will be planted in every possible location, including standing water on our site. We hope to later create walkways for visitors. We will strive to keep the site open for the general public as conditions permit. The location will not be kept secret. It is on Garrison Road and Judson Hill Roads in Wells Township, Bradford County Pa. The farm is owned by members of the Hirst Family. The Hirst family has numerous farms throughout the United States. Their tree farm, Highland Hill Farm, will assist with technical aspects in this project. This tree was found in 1941 in China in a small isolated grove of about 1000 trees. The tree was believed to be extinct, due to the fact that no fossils younger than 1.5 million years had ever been found. This has now become a popular ornamental tree. We hope that it will continue to thrive both inside and outside its original Chinese bastion. Perhaps this tree will be naturalized and slowly begin to repopulate itself once again across the entire Northern Hemisphere.