The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Image credit: Holly Stapleton / Grist. Article by Maya L. Kapoor. Grist – September 13, 2023.

When Neil Patterson Jr. was about 7 or 8 years old, he saw a painting called “Gathering Chestnuts,” by Tonawanda Seneca artist Ernest Smith. Patterson didn’t realize that the painting showed a grove of American chestnuts, a tree that had been all but extinct since his great-grandparents’ time. […]

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