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Listen to one of the largest trees in the world

A sound artist set out to capture the acoustic wonder of a famed swath of quaking aspens. It's one of the largest trees on the planet, known as Pando.
Pando began with a single seed and now contains over 40,000 "stems."

If you journey to Fishlake National Forest in Utah, you'll be surrounded by a high-elevation behemoth.

It's one of the largest life forms on the planet: a quaking aspen so colossal it has a name — Pando, which is Latin for "I spread."

You might mistake Pando for a swath of forest of thousands of individual trees. But in reality, it's all one tree

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