Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

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Jim Brady by one of the American chestnut trees on his property in Olean on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. Joed Viera/Buffalo News ...

The chestnut blight is a fungus accidentally brought to North America on imported Asiatic trees in the late 1800s, and it’s devastated our wild American species, rendering it functionally extinct.

Thought to have been imported on Asian nursery plants about 1900, by 1950 the chestnut blight had destroyed an estimated 3.5 billion canopy American chestnuts.

In 2018, Erie County, which owns Chestnut Ridge Park, planted about 50 American chestnut trees, including about a dozen near the on-ramp into the park’s main road.

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