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Nevada residents outraged as famed Joshua trees are bulldozed to make way for solar farm
Nevada residents are rallying against a solar farm that bulldozed several Joshua trees. Estuary Power, an energy-generation company that operates in the western U.S., closed a $340 million deal to ...
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Enhanced Blight Resistance in Transgenic American Chestnut
From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...
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Hacking Trees To Bring Back The American Chestnut
While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...
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Nevada Residents Furious After Ancient Trees Are Bulldozed to Make Room for ‘Green’ Solar Farm
Similar comments have emerged in Nevada, where a Mojave Basin solar project is also making war on Joshua trees. A project being built by Estuary Power has been bulldozing Joshua trees, angering ...