WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...
National Geographic news: To save chestnut trees, we may have to ‘play God’
“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.
The Hill: The USDA’s approval of GE chestnut trees would be a step forward for threatened species conservation
The USDA’s approval of GE chestnut trees would be a step forward for threatened species conservation
WUNC: Researchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100 years
And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s, ...
Researchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100 years
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