Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111224:23:38:00
The verge of a comeback. researchers are trying to save the all but extinct american chestnut tree. >> we lost 4 billion of the american chestnut trees. we were all too young to remember them. they were the dominant tree in the eastern forest. >> more than 100 years ago, american chestnut trees that accounted for up to 60% of the forest the in the east were wiped out by a blight introduced from china. healthy, american chestnut trees like this one not only provided food to the earliest pioneers, but wood for homes and furniture. a nonprofit group called the american chestnut foundation is cros...
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