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The Ghost Tree: Bringing Back the American Chestnut

Season 2 Episode 6 | 8m 15s

Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter of decades. Today, only sickly sprouts remain 鈥 ghosts of a vanished ecosystem. Sara Fern Fitzsimmons and The American Chestnut Foundation are racing to breed resistance and restore the tree's ecological role. It鈥檚 slow, painstaking work 鈥 but it may hold the key to revival.

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