American Chestnut Foundation
Hanford Mills Museum will be shutting down for the Winter, but they are ending the year with a festival, including civic organizations, with demonstrations of mill work, crafts, and lumberjack skills. One of the organizations is American Chestnut Foundation, which uses genetic engineering to produce a blight resistant Chestnut. They have put one gene from wheat into the American Chestnut genome, producing a tree that is blight resistant. Now, they are crossing it back into the existing chestnut stock. Of course, they have some detractors.
American Chestnut Foundation
Hanford Mills Museum will be shutting down for the Winter, but they are ending the year with a festival, including civic organizations, with demonstrations of mill work, crafts, and lumberjack skills. One of the organizations is American Chestnut Foundation, which uses genetic engineering to produce a blight resistant Chestnut. They have put one gene from wheat into the American Chestnut genome, producing a tree that is blight resistant. Now, they are crossing it back into the existing chestnut stock. Of course, they have some detractors.