Planting hopes to save chestnut trees
Monday, April 16, 2012 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
NEW YORK, Calif., April 16 (UPI) -- The once-ubiquitous American chestnut tree, virtually wiped out by a fungus, will return to New York in an effort to re-establish the species, scientists said.
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