TWENTY AMERICAN CHESTNUTS RETURNED TO THE BRONX ZOO.
The blight was first documented here. Now a restoration network is taking root.
Twenty hybrid American chestnuts have returned to the Bronx Zoo, reconnecting the site where chestnut blight was first documented in 1904 with a growing urban restoration network.
WHAT HAPPENED
The Wildlife Conservation Society, New York Restoration Project and The American Chestnut Foundation planted the two-to-three-foot saplings in three locations at the zoo. The planting joins more than 200 hybrid chestnuts already stewarded in Northern Manhattan and the wider 1,000 Chestnut Challenge.
WHY THIS IS HOPESLOP
The poetry is almost suspiciously neat: the place that recorded the disaster now gets to help test the comeback. Twenty saplings cannot replace four billion lost trees, but they can become living data — watched, measured and used to learn what a return might require.
ORIGINAL SOURCEWildlife Conservation Society / New York Restoration ProjectRead the original report
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