American Chestnuts Are Living in North American Forests

The American chestnut has been virtually wiped-out since forester Hermann Merkel discovered a disease called the Asian Blight Fungus in the Bronx Zoo in 1904. Native chestnuts now exist mostly as stump sprouts from the original fungus-blighted trees. I provide you with a pictorial of remnant chestnut sprouts I have found.

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