Chestnut tree giveaway in NYC aims to bring plant back from brink of extinction The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.

Thank you to Rosemary Misdary for your thoughtful reporting on NYRP's #1000ChestnutChallenge in @gothamist.com! Read more about our efforts to bring the #AmericanChestnut back to NYC and why this is so important to our city's ecosystem below:

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