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This week on "The State of Ohio": The Senate version of the budget is on its way, with just a few weeks remaining to hammer out differences with the House. Lawmakers try to clarify the state auditor's role with JobsOhio. And we revisit and update two controversial issues from the last year - the abortion debate in Ohio and the state's new exotic animals law and the facility it created.
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| Researchers plant thousands of specially-bred trees in effort to restore forest land. |
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By Fred Kight - April 23, 2009 |
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The people who run the Wayne National Forest have a plan to re-establish native vegetation as much as possible. They also want to make better use of reclaimed mine land, which is not good for growing things because of poor soil. Researchers have made it possible to do both at once. They've developed blight resistant American Chestnut trees and disease resistant American Elm trees. |
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Gary Wilson (:13) 
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Gary Wilson (:13)
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| Gary Wilson is a timber specialist with the Wayne National Forest, where nearly one-thousand trees were planted earlier this month. Forest employees and volunteers planted the trees at an old mine site in Athens County. An estimated 3,000 seedlings are being put in at sites in the National Forest's Athens and Ironton districts. The Chestnuts - which were specially bred - need extra help. |
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