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Human activity devastated the American chestnut. Can we bring it back?
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Human activity devastated the American chestnut. Can we bring it back?

The tree helped build industrial America before an estimated three billion or more were destroyed. To repair the damage, we may need to embrace tinkering with nature.
In Saratoga Springs, experts talk climate change impacts on invasive species
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In Saratoga Springs, experts talk climate change impacts on invasive species

Researchers are gathering in Saratoga Springs this week for a meeting of the North American Invasive Species Management Association. Researchers, academics, foresters and environmental agency employees from Maine to Utah to Canada and Europe participated and one of the hot topics this year was climate change and how it may speed the spread of some invasives.
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