Hanging from their branches were long catkins bearing the male cones, and the shorter female cones were also developing on the trees.
In March, at the time of our visit, the trees were bare of leaves, having shed them last November. Milton Silverman, Science Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, and I flew across the Pacific and up the Yangtze valley to Chungking how we took a river boat down to Wan-Hsien and then walked over the steep and slippery trails for three days to Mo-tao-chi and for two days more to Shui-sapa.
The details of the trip have been told elsewhere-how Dr. I wanted to see how it lived and with what other trees it was associated.” That was on Januless than two months later, Chaney was in Modaoqi, marveling at the newly found tree, shooting roll after roll of photographs, and absorbing information on the climate and topography of the tree’s native region and on the plants that grew around it. Chaney wrote that when he received seeds of Metasequoia from China, “the reality of this new tree so impressed me that I decided to visit it in its native home. Hu about the discovery in China of trees that had been thought extinct for millions of years. By 1948, Ralph Chaney-professor of paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, and passionate advocate for the North American redwoods-had been hearing for a year and a half from his colleague Professor H.