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Restoring the Chestnut
A quarter of all hardwood trees in Eastern forests used to be of one species. The American chestnut. Today, Ron Doyle is thankful to have a writing pen made of that wood. His dad, Irvin, gave him the pen as a gift in the 1980s. The elder Doyle had recovered the wood from a barn he owned. A friend turned it and several others on a lathe. Read More
Professors come home to Georgia to plant live oaks in research plots
It is unusual, however, when the plants are live oak seedlings inside 8-foot fences at the Cannon’s Point Preserve on St. Simons Island. The seedlings will grow in research plots planted under the guidance of a pair of forestry professors from Purdue University and New Mexico State who have roots in Georgia. Read More
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