The plight of the trees touched a spot in several of you. Here is the page of the American Chestnut Foundation. Check out the picture of the tree from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park Library!
Chestnut Foundation
Wow! There's a book out that reflects the thinking of...
... a compassionate and clearheaded account by a religious leader who not only respects science but, for the most part, embraces it.
"If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in (religion) to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims," he writes.
No one who wants to understand the world "can ignore the basic insights of theories as key as evolution, relativity and quantum mechanics."
Imperfect, of course, but this religious leader who embraces science...is the Dalai Llama.
nytimes
Today starts the NYTIMES great experiment...We'll all be watching.
Peace,
Steve
Peter Friederici, an friend of mine who often writes about ecological matters, has a book coming out on restoration efforts for the American chestnut and a few other lost species. More when it rolls off the presses.
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