A freshly planted chestnut tree sapling is left ready to grow Saturday morning after about 70 volunteers from the West Virginia chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation and area Cub and Boy Scout troops planted over 400 of the trees along a hillside at the Bechtel Family Summit near Glen Jean. The American Chestnut tree was almost completely wiped out by a blight imported from Asia from early 1900 to 1950, and the more than 400 saplings planted at the Summit Saturday are potentially resistant to it. The effort is part of a breeding program to restore the tree to the eastern forests of America.
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