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• Aspen -- http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/worlds-7-most-amazing-trees/quaking-aspen-pando

The Aspen trees beauty is most noted in the fall for the golden colors. What is less noted is the amazing root system connecting the trees, a remarkable example of interconnected communication, adaptation strategy, survival and growth.

Pando, or the Trembling Giant, is a remarkable massive colony of a single quaking aspen trees spread over more than 100 acres in Utah. Every tree in the area shoots from a single organism, and they share a giant underground root system. It's estimated that Pando collectively weighs 6,615 tons, making it the heaviest living organism on the planet.

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• From Wikipedia:

... some claim Pando's age is close to 1 million years.

Its current 80,000 year designation is based on a complex set of factors including the history of its local environment such as: the evidence indicating that there are few if any naturally occurring new aspens in most of the western United States since a climate shift took place 10,000 years ago and eliminated favorable soil conditions for seedlings...

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• From Discover:

http://discovermagazine.com/1993/oct/thetremblinggian285

The quaking aspen, one of this country's most beautiful trees, also makes up the world's most massive organism... (1993)

Pando reached such vast dimensions by a kind of growth, common to plants, known as vegetative reproduction. A plant sends out horizontal stems or roots, either above ground or below depending on the species, that travel some distance before taking root themselves and growing into new, connected plants.

Wherever they grow, quaking aspens like unstable habitats...

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• From your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / SJS: In the 1990's our family company, Schmidt-Cannon Int'l, chose to expand from what has started as a two-many office on Hacienda Boulevard to a thriving company in City of Industry.

A choice was made to begin a new phase of growth and link up with and acquire companies in marketing and outreach initiatives.

The new worldwide web was beginning to influence businesses from the bottom up as we say it and, in my personal position as a technology expert and member of a state board of education responsible for bring the world of the internet into education and also creating an online university (the Western Governor's University), the challenges and opportunities were open to envisioning what could be done.

I saw networking as the key to vitality, growth, resilience and so when asked, the name of the new SCI became a metaphor for connection in nature.

The Aspen community, one of nature's thriving successes....

Our multi-division company, with interactive/direct/event/promotion and many front-of-market services would rename ourselves.

We chose Aspen as our 'brand' message, 'interconnectedness' of an Aspen community, stronger together, brought together at our roots -- our strength and viability working together... our new name Aspen Marketing Services came into being and thrived...

The natural world of the Aspen grove was our model....

Our CEO moved to Evergreen, Colorado ;- and our co-founder moved to Orange County

And your siterunner moved to Clearwater, Florida to take on responsibilities to grow Aspen

Here's to Neil and Joe and Aspen dreams years later

Much has changed, even as Aspen has grown far beyond Hacienda Boulevard

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