Bringing the Mighty Chestnut Back

UNE Professor Thomas Klak describes the features that made the American Chestnut such a valuable tree in the eastern forest, the fungal blight that made it functionally extinct by the mid-twentieth century, and current efforts to restore it - and all of its ecological benefits - to the Maine landscape (and beyond).

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... and here I thought that the OXO gen experiment had failed (miserably) due to epigenetics.