back before the 1800s, the chestnut tree was king of the eastern forests, numbering an estimated seven or eight billion. diseases from imported foreign chestnuts reduced that number and a blight in the early 1900s almost finished them off.
i was reading this morning about attempts to bring them back (for example, https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-bring-back-near-mythical-american-chestnut-trees.
This made me smile.
for The Weekly Smile
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