That tree...!

It made a trans species jump out of some other organism in Asia, where it was living on Hemlock trees in Asia.

We have now discovered that there is a multi directional transfer of nutrients between plants, mitigated by the mcyelium so the mycelium is the mother that is giving nutrients from alder and birch trees to hemlocks, cedars and Douglas firs.

The Eastern Hemlock tree has often been described as the Redwood of the East.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

When it moved into its new host, the Eastern Hemlock tree, it escaped its predators, and the new tree had no resistance to it.

These are Serphas lighting juniper branches.

We have fir trees, the forests are tightly packed

They believe juniper smoke is holy.

I'll bet you told her all your trees were sequoias.

They stop before a redwood trunk marked with historical dates.

Search again in the shrubs and there under the fir.

To us, when we look at a Redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet Redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling Redwood space over Redwood time, over thousands of years.

And yet, when you look at the base of a Redwood tree, you're not seeing the organism.

What can the Redwoods tell us about ourselves?

This is the spruce Gran Picea, which at 9,550 years is a mere babe in the woods.

A Redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the Redwood.

This is Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Hemlocks are dead as far as the eye can see.

And in the last two to three summers, these invasive organisms, this kind of Ebola of the trees, as it were, has swept through the primeval Hemlock forest of the east, and has absolutely wiped it out. I climbed there this past summer.

Steve Sillett, when he was a 19 year old college student at Reed College, had heard that the Redwood forest canopy is considered to be a so called Redwood desert.

We're looking at the very top of Gaya, which is thought to be the oldest Redwood.

It's 130 in the shade, and there ain't any shade up there on that derrick.

Think about this tree, rising upward into Redwood space, 325 feet, 32 stories, an individual living organism articulating its forms upward into space over long periods of time.

What you're looking at now is a tree called Jomon Sugi, living on the remote island of Yakushima.

That is to say, at that time it was believed that there was nothing up there except the branches of Redwood trees.

Ants are not known to occur in Redwood trees, curiously enough, and we wondered whether this ant, this species of ant, was only endemic to that one tree, or possibly to that grove.

Redwood rainforest is incredibly difficult to move through, and even today, individual trees are being discovered that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration.

In the 1950s, a small organism appeared in Richmond, Virginia, called the Hemlock woolly adelgid.

They've wired them like patients in an ICU.

He climbed up a small tree next to this giant Redwood, and then he leaped through space and grabbed a branch with his hands, and ended up hanging, like catching a bar of a trapeze.

Redwoods grow back into themselves as they expand into space, and this flying buttress is a limb shot out of that small trunk, going back into the main trunk and fusing with it.

And there are actually a number or ancient yews in churchyards around the U.K., but if you do the math, you'll remember it's actually the yew trees that were there first, then the churches.

And what we're seeing is not just the potential death of the Eastern Hemlock species that is to say, its extinction from nature due to this invading parasite but we're also seeing the death of an incredibly complex ecosystem for which these trees are merely the substrate for the aerial labyrinth of the sky that exists in their crowns.

They're finding out that Redwoods can move moisture out of the air and down into their trunks, possibly all the way into their root systems.

When Steve Sillett gets up into a big Redwood, he fires an arrow, which trails a fishing line, which gets over a branch in the tree, and then you ascend up a rope which has been dragged into the tree by the line.

Los Angeles.

A Los Angeles.

Los Angeles.

Where's the money?

This is the Fortingall Yew no, I'm just kidding this is the Fortingall Yew.

There are two people climbing this tree, Gaya, which is thought to be one of the oldest Redwoods. There they are.

Los Lagos

Los Angeles girl?

What they're doing in the Redwood forest canopy soil hundreds of feet above the ocean, or how they got there, is completely unknown.