Volunteers Aim to Revive Chestnut

In Weaverville North Carolina a drip irrigation system to help rejuvenate the hayfields powdery, depleted soil. Chestnut tree sprouts are kept in protective wire mesh and plastic sleeving. The seedlings have been taken care of throughout back to back droughts, a killing frost, and an infestation of 17 year locust-applying herbicides and mowing between the rows to knock down anything that might compete. The American chestnut used to dominate the landscape from Georgia to Maine. By the 1950s the trees were going extinct. After 30 years of breeding and cross breeding, The American Chestnut Foundation believes they have developed a blight resistant tree.

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