A retired FBI agent has spent 20-plus years tracking down 100-year-old apple trees to save them from extinction
Retired FBI agent Dave Benscoter founded the Lost Apple Project in 2012 to find historic apple varieties in the Pacific Northwest. With E.J. Brandt and DNA experts, he has located 30 once-lost pre-1920 apple varieties in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, collecting specimens and grafting trees to preserve them.
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