TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.

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TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.

TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine. https://www.themountaineer.com/news/haywood_history/memory-of-great-forests-and-hope-for-restoration/article_b4995be6-249d-11ed-a0ca-ff700334e153.html AppalachianMarxist November 29, 2022 at 02:14AM

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TIL the American Chestnut Tree was king of the Eastern U.S. forests that could grow 120ft (36.5m) tall and 16ft (4.9m) across until a blight arrived in 1904. It took only 40 short years for the disease to bring to extinction the estimated 4 billion ancient giants towering from Georgia to Maine.

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