what happens after the ROD

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

There is a GMO American Chestnut waiting for regulatory approval.

Here's a little more info on that process, with some history about how the Chestnut die off began. It could be similar to what is happening to our Ohia:

Then, in 1904, the chief forester at the New York Zoological Park—now the Bronx Zoo—noticed that some of the chestnut trees in the park were ailing. The following year, so many trees were turning brown that the forester appealed for help to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the New York Botanical Garden. Within five years, chestnut trees from Maryland to Connecticut were dying. The culprit was identified as a fungus, which had been imported from Asia, probably on Japanese chestnut trees, Castanea crenata.

The article at the link is about both coral and chestnut trees. Scroll more than half way down (it's a long read), to the large, bold capital H, "Half a hemisphere away...":
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/0...nd-forests

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