I'm not sure exactly why stories about people trying to repopulate the forest with native chestnut trees get me so excited, but they do. Go figure.
ANYway, a story today about the largest chestnut tree in Alabama, which seems not to be susceptible to blight, and the efforts to propagate it and pass along its genetic material to other trees.
(Actually, I blame this lurid fascination on James Thurber's story about a relative who died from Dutch elm disease. I keep hoping to work in a lie about one of my relatives dying from chestnut blight.)
Posted by Terry Oglesby at June 20, 2006 11:16 AM