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Seeds sown; now it's up to nature
Group plants chestnut trees to re-establish species
Intelligencer Journal
Published: Apr 07, 2008
00:02 EST
House Rock Road
By MADELYN PENNINO, staff writer

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Tim Eck, a member of the Pennsylvania American Chestnut Foundation, said bringing chestnut[url="http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/15/1/Tim%20Eck/"] trees back from near extinction is his pet project.

"There's a commercial need for chestnut[url="http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/15/1/Tim%20Eck/"] wood," Eck said. "It doesn't rot easily. Each one of these is going to turn into a nice telephone pole someday."



Geez! This is the best thing this guy said that LNP could quote? These chestnuts were being planted on LCC land -- they're going to make a terrific forest some day -- NOT telephone poles! By the time these trees reach that height, there won't be a need for telephone poles anyway -- we'll have all switched to cell phones!

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