Kentucky Color: The Adair Tree
2022-05-28 - Adair Co., KY - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge
This old American chestnut tree growing on Charles England's farm in the Bull Run watershed of Adair County gained fame in the 1990s because of its very rare genetic resistance to the blight that killed billions of American chestnut trees across our eastern hardwood forest in the early 20th Century. Comments | Permalink