Tennessee foresters helping to return chestnuts to American forests
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 13:22
in Biology & Nature
The American chestnut was a dominant species in eastern U.S.'s forests before a blight wiped it out in the early 1900s. Today it's being returned to the landscape thanks in part to work by a University of Tennessee Forestry alumna and the UT Tree Improvement Program (UT TIP).