[HN Gopher] The demise and potential revival of the American che...
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       The demise and potential revival of the American chestnut
        
       Author : jseliger
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-03-12 22:10 UTC (49 minutes ago)
        
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       | egberts wrote:
       | I actually saw the last surviving American chestnut tree in
       | Pennsylvania.
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       | It was a lone tree on a hillside for miles around.
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       | Those nuts too are still being harvest for biogenetic rework.
        
       | Maursault wrote:
       | This is exciting. The American Chestnut is an amazing tree that
       | once grew with trunks as wide as a car. The article did not
       | mention that once the blight was discovered, there was somewhat
       | of a panic to harvest them, which rather reduced the genetic
       | diversity and ruined the possibility of any natural resistance.
       | The horrendous effect our species has on the diversity of life is
       | incredibly sad, re: Dodos and Carrier Pigeons and likely
       | thousands of other unique species. But I would not cry if the
       | biting mosquito that spreads disease, the bacteria that causes
       | wet dog smell, and Cryphonectria parasitica went extinct never to
       | appear again.
        
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