Project to restore rare native trees with DNA testing

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOxfordshire has only fifty recorded black poplar trees, and a project along the River Thames is using DNA testing to bring more of them back.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFifty in a whole county. That's a small guest list.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe Long Mead Foundation says the trees look like something from Lord of the Rings, with great gnarled trunks. I'd cross the county just to say hi to one.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd I assume the DNA test shows whether a tree is a native black poplar or a hybrid.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo somebody's about to find out they're a hybrid?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA tree finds out at the lab that it's been a hybrid its whole life. Great news for the people who run the account.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThey've got funding from two district councils, they're aiming for twenty thousand pounds, and the county council will match up to ten thousand. Love it.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorLove all of it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFifty trees, and not one of them has ever posted a thing. Cleanest fandom I've seen.