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The Best Nut Trees To Grow In Your Yard (And Which Ones To Avoid)

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LAist

American Chestnut Trees

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic version ...
The Washington Post

Strengthening the Chestnut's Family Tree

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...
The Roanoke Times

Park planting to highlight plight of the chestnut blight

BLACKSBURG — A group of fourth graders went home on Wednesday afternoon a little messier than they were when they left home that morning. About 50 kids helped town officials and members of the ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

UNH’s chestnut trees may not repopulate forests. But they’re still helping the effort.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...