Photos: Apple sleuths hunt Northwest for varieties believed extinct
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AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus
In this Oct. 22, 2019, photo, E.J. Brandt and David Benscoter, amateur botanists with The Lost Apple Project, walk toward an orchard in the Steptoe Butte area near Colfax, Wash. Trees in the orchard are among hundreds currently being studied by the pair, who have rediscovered at least 13 long-lost apple varieties in homestead orchards, remote canyons and windswept fields in eastern Washington and northern Idaho that had previously been thought to be extinct.