[PCA] NEWS: The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/17/AR2010101703320.html?hpid=topnews

The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback 
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 18, 2010; 1:03 AM

Its sweeping canopy inspired poets, and its strong, straight timber shaped 
the stories of life in rural Appalachia, until the tree itself became the 
stuff of fiction. It is now more than a century since the American 
chestnut tree - once 4 billion strong and an icon of East Coast forests - 
fell victim to a foreign blight. By 1950, it had virtually disappeared.

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