USDA Approval Advances Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut

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https://www.esf.edu/news/2026/usda_approves_american_chestnut_project.php

The chestnut was the dominate tree in many of the forests of the eastern US until the chestnut blight wiped them out. Majestic, old-growth chestnuts and elms. Most people younger than me have never seen one.