May 22, 2006
NOTHING GOES EXTINCT UNLESS WE KILL IT (via Tom Morin):
Rare American chestnut trees discovered (ELLIOTT MINOR, 5/19/06, Associated Press )
A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House at Warm Springs.Posted by Orrin Judd at May 22, 2006 7:57 PMThe find has stirred excitement among those working to restore the American chestnut, and raised hopes that scientists might be able to use the pollen to breed hardier chestnut trees.
Comments
So, it was the oil companies that did in the dinosaurs? That's planning!
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at May 22, 2006 9:27 PMThis is great news. I grew up on Chestnut Ridge in Pennsylvania and there was nary a chestnut tree to be seen there. Some of the old timers, though, remembered.... Maybe someday we can bring them back.
Posted by: D.B. Light at May 22, 2006 9:43 PM