Jared Westbrook

My name is Jared Westbrook. I work for the American Chestnut Foundation.

My name is Jared Westbrook. I work for the American Chestnut Foundation.

So we've planted hundreds of thousands of trees at this farm, and now we're selecting the 1% most resistant trees.

So we've planted hundreds of thousands of trees at this farm, and now we're selecting the 1% most resistant trees.

So there's a lot more genes involved. And as you do more crossing to American chestnut, you get trees that are less blight tolerant.

So there's a lot more genes involved. And as you do more crossing to American chestnut, you get trees that are less blight tolerant.

But we can't go out to the forest and treat 400 million trees with this virus every year. So it's too labor-intensive for large-scale restoration, but it works for our breeding efforts.

But we can't go out to the forest and treat 400 million trees with this virus every year. So it's too labor-intensive for large-scale restoration, but it works for our breeding efforts.

It messes with people's idea of what is natural or what is nature. And we're doing an interventionist approach to a problem that humans caused in terms of bringing in introduced pathogens that the native species are naive to and they're susceptible to.

It messes with people's idea of what is natural or what is nature. And we're doing an interventionist approach to a problem that humans caused in terms of bringing in introduced pathogens that the native species are naive to and they're susceptible to.

It would be very difficult to try to resurrect all of the species that have gone extinct as a result of human intervention. But if we were selective about choosing keystone species that have a large ecological effect, I think that is where the intervention is justified.

It would be very difficult to try to resurrect all of the species that have gone extinct as a result of human intervention. But if we were selective about choosing keystone species that have a large ecological effect, I think that is where the intervention is justified.

My name is Jared Westbrook. I work for the American Chestnut Foundation.

So we've planted hundreds of thousands of trees at this farm, and now we're selecting the 1% most resistant trees.

So there's a lot more genes involved. And as you do more crossing to American chestnut, you get trees that are less blight tolerant.

But we can't go out to the forest and treat 400 million trees with this virus every year. So it's too labor-intensive for large-scale restoration, but it works for our breeding efforts.

It messes with people's idea of what is natural or what is nature. And we're doing an interventionist approach to a problem that humans caused in terms of bringing in introduced pathogens that the native species are naive to and they're susceptible to.

It would be very difficult to try to resurrect all of the species that have gone extinct as a result of human intervention. But if we were selective about choosing keystone species that have a large ecological effect, I think that is where the intervention is justified.