Residents driving down John Owings Road in Westminster have wondered whether a new cemetery has sprung up at Hashawha Environmental Center.

But those straight lines of white tubes aren?t grave sites. They?re the coverings for 250 chestnut tree samplings planted in a new grove designed to bring the “king of the forest” back from the brink of extinction.

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