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A photo of Pando in the fall at Fish Lake National Forest.

Earth’s biggest living thing might be a tree with thousands of clones

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Utah’s Fishlake National Forest is home to a stand of aspen trees that’s actually one genetic clone — 100 square acres and tens of thousands of year’s worth of the same tree. And that stand, named Pando, may just be the biggest living thing on the planet.

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