America Had 4 Billion Chestnut Trees. In 40 Years Every One Was Dead.
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America Had 4 Billion Chestnut Trees. In 40 Years Every One Was Dead.
The American chestnut was one in four trees in the eastern forest — it fed people, pigs, deer, whole economies. Then a fungus arrived on imported trees in 1904 and killed nearly all of them by the 1940s. The largest forest collapse in history, and almost no one remembers it. They buried this knowledge. We're digging it up. #forbiddenharvest # ...
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