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Importance and Strategies in Forest Biotechnology and Conservation

Agric4profits

There is significant social and ecological value in conserving larger areas of biodiversity-rich natural forests and reducing economic demands on those forests by increasing yields from planted forests. This suggests that the total value in plantations is not simply a financial equation.

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The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Modern Farmer

The beloved and ecologically important species was harvested by Indigenous peoples for millennia and once numbered in the billions, providing food and habitat to countless birds, insects, and mammals of eastern forests, before being wiped out by rampant logging and a deadly fungal blight brought on by European colonization.