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A new Maine orchard aims to help bring back American chestnut trees

Bangor Daily News 04 Jan 2026
For decades, the Viles Arboretum in Augusta played a small part in one plan to bring back American chestnuts, the once-ubiquitous tree almost eliminated by blight ... American chestnuts around the state.
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Holiday revelation: Wild American chestnuts thriving on biologist’s land in Maine

Image GM Watch 21 Dec 2025
Film gives the lie to claims by some researchers that genetically engineered trees are the only path to restoration of the American chestnut ... In 1982 Heinrich planted wild American chestnut seedlings on his land.
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Grow hybrid American chestnut trees from chestnuts

Detroit news 20 Nov 2025
The loss of American chestnut trees, Castanea denatata, ranks as one of the most devastating botanical disasters in U.S ... Since the 1980s, scientists have been cross-breeding American chestnuts with ...
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American chestnut trees once dominated the forests

Image The Newport Plain Talk 19 Nov 2025
Many folks only think about chestnuts today when they hear the holiday tune about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire”. They may not know that at one time, the American chestnut tree was the dominant species in the forests from ....
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Charting the Course for Recovery: Villanova Geography and the Environment Professor Turns to Maps to Help Plan Repopulation of Iconic American Chestnut (Villanova University)

Public Technologies 17 Nov 2025
For Jen Santoro, PhD, the key to recovering these important species-like the American chestnut-begins with the coordinates ... to return the iconic American chestnut to its native range ... But for now, her focus is on the American chestnut.
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Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?

Resilience 14 Nov 2025
Virginia tree farmers reintroduce an iconic tree that was decimated by blight. .
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