In the last year, modest but historic plantings of a disease resistant American chestnut have begun on national forest lands in Virginia and on a private tract in Westmoreland County, Pa. The little trees, also the basis for an ambitious science curriculum in Carroll County schools, represent the sixth generation of a breeding program begun 25 years ago to counteract the chestnut blight.
Perhaps no "perfect" tree ever...
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