by pa_friendly_guy » Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:12 pm
I watched the video, it was well done and well worth the time. I agree that the loss of the American Chestnut left a huge void in our woods. When I was young I remember seeing the huge rotting stumps in the woods. They are all but gone now, the last remnants of the once great trees. In Pa the Oaks have helped to fill the void in the mast crop for wild life, but the gypsy moths desimated alot of the Oak trees 4 years ago. Both of these problems, the chestnut blight and the gypsy moth were brought here by man. What were we thinking? I know that they have a chestnut now that they believe might be totally blight resistive, but it will take 15 to 20 years to be sure. That is about when the trees are large enough to be effected by the blight. I am hopeful that we make have a solution to the blight problem at hand.
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