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For as much as 14,000 years, the aspen clone called Pando has spread across 106 Utah acres as roughly 47,000 trunks, 13 million pounds of wood and roots, and one male organism still trying to replace itself through shoots the deer keep eating

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On a ridge above Fish Lake in south-central Utah, Pando looks like a forest until you learn where the organism really is. The grove covers 106 acres. It contains roughly 47,000 genetically identical quaking aspen stems. Together, the stems and roots weigh about 13 million pounds, making Pando one of the heaviest known living organisms on land, according to NASA Earth Observatory. The trunks are no...