Chestnuts and the Blight Fungus

People tried virtually everything to save their chestnuts and chestnuts that maybe hadn't been touched by the blight yet. Sara says she's met a lot of people who are trying to, she calls them citizen scientists. She told us about a man who wanted to fill tights with batteries and then wrap those tights around a tree in hopes they would kill the fungus. And about an orthopedist in south carolina named joe james. He remembered the the loss of the chestnut.