The Future of the American Chestnut | Eater
"The location where, in the early 1900s, chestnut blight was first detected on imported Japanese chestnut trees; the fungus that emerged there spread rapidly across the eastern U.S., killing infected American chestnuts within a few years and ultimately contributing to the loss of an estimated four to five billion trees, a collapse that dramatically reduced domestic chestnut consumption and reshaped the species' history." - Claudia Geib
