I work for a tree removal company that clears land before it's developed. The other day I gave the authorization to cut down what turned out to be one of the very last surviving American Chestnuts, which are protected by law. For those of you that don't know, the species was decimated 50 years ago by a fungal disease accidentally introduced from Japan. The imported Japanese Chestnuts have natural immunity to the fungus but the native ones do not. Untold billions of the trees were killed and the species hangs at the edge of extinction to this day. Virtually all furniture you buy today with Chestnut wood is made from the imported Japanese trees.
The tree we cut down not only managed to survive the blight but apparently had blight resistant genes to have survived at all. If word of what we did ever got out my company is going to be fucked.
None of this happened. You've never had a job. You've never even left your mom's basement.
Nicholas Adams
If you don't want word to get out, you should stop posting on the web about it.
Nolan Cruz
Why did you work for some shabby tree removal company and not for a certified arborist who can identify trees? Tree services are shit.
Jordan Lee
I wouldnt entirely worry about it. There's a genetically modified american chestnut being tested that's more blight resistant than the chinese chestnut is. Hopefully it's approved for release in the wild as the first wild released GMO. The resistance is a dominant gene, so it will successfully breed with non blight resistant trees for a wider gene pool if released. It's called the Darling american chestnut. 99.99% american chestnut, 00.01% bread wheat
Hudson Morris
Post your name and company coward
Daniel Green
The "Arner Tree"?
Alexander Martinez
And become a activist for their preservation. Or at the very least get out of your suburban enabling job.
Bentley Cooper
How exactly does a tree breed? Do the chestnuts just bust all over pussy willows like skeet skeet skeet or is there some actual science to it?
Zachary Myers
Fuck you
Evan Bennett
This Sup. You a fellow arborist?
Jace Torres
Are the tree stumps still there? They could begin suckering and grow back as a coppice-like tree, as long as herbicide wasnt applied. Most american chestnuts that have blight sucker, though fail to grow back from blight. These ones could live.
Logan Morris
Land would have been surveyed first, fake
Nathaniel Foster
No I'm a gardening hobbyist who reads about related horticultural skills. I knew something was up with "tree services" when all they hired were illegals, couldn't identify a tree, wanted to top my other trees, and threatened to call the township on me for my "dead" tree. It was a late leafing sourgum tree, good fall color. I respect most of you arborists, sylviculturalists, and foresters. I'll definitely call an arborist instead of a tree service for any serious tree problem or question
Adrian Edwards
Get the tree to botanical scientists for study dumbass.
Ayden Scott
As far as we can tell, true American Chestnuts were completely wiped out. There are modified strains but those are widely available so if that’s what was cut down you shouldn’t be worried. If there were any known surviving original American chestnuts they would be protected and cultivated
Alexander Hill
You could also get tree twigs and propogate by cutting if you still have the limbs and branches around.
Brody Rodriguez
DNA sample it. clone it will the trunk sprout again if well-cared for?
