saplings

The saplings' new homes will all be publicly accessible.

It's November and it's unseasonably warm as John John Brown, a Muscogee elder, works to replant peach saplings.

Acevedo will have to wait until February to grow his next saplings — all of them Hass, the major variety grown in California.

"It was not that successful - most of the saplings died," he says.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is restoring managed fire in the western end of North Carolina to encourage the growth of white oak saplings and rivercane, a traditional weaving material.