Sure, as long as we bring back the passenger pigeon to nest in them as well.
It took 16 years for Powell and his colleague Charles Maynard to create a blight-tolerant tree using a gene found in wheat and many other plants. The gene causes the chestnut to produce oxalate oxidase, an enzyme that detoxifies the blight’s acid.
It’s an elegant solution, Powell said. The enzyme doesn’t kill the fungus, so it’s less likely that the blight will evolve ways to defeat it. And unlike the crossbred trees, the genetically engineered ones preserve nearly all of the native chestnut’s genome.
A "Win, Win" situation. Both are good eat'n and the wood is rot resistant and easy to work.
As a young man I worked at Catoctin mountain range for a summer camp. The building were all made of chestnut during the depression. We saw trees struggling to overcome the blight, growing a year or two only to succumb to the blight. This is a most worthy project.