AMERICAN CHESTNUT BLIGHT - Greatest forest loss in history

There were once almost 4 billion American chestnuts and they were among the largest, tallest, and fastest-growing trees in the eastern forest. The wood was long-lasting, straight-grained, and suitable for furniture, fencing, and building. The nuts fed billions of birds and animals. It was almost a perfect tree - that is, until it was killed by a blight a century ago. That blight has been called the greatest ecological disaster to strike the world's forests in all of history. A tree that had survived all adversaries for 40 million years had disappeared within 40.

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• environmental video
• American Chestnut Blight
• Appalachian history
• Chestnut tree
• American Chestnut video
• blight
• depression
• Chestnut restoration
• Appalachian forest
• agricultural
• Documentary video
• Chestnuts

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ThankYou, and May God Bless you through your efforts, a wonderful dissertation! As an owner of a Chestnut Victorian work, I'm pleased to help preserve a dream each night I go to sleep. May the Good God keep You, in His word, Forever Faithful. Amen.