Chestnut Blight

In 19 o four, there was a zoologist at the bronk sou in new york city, of all places, and a he saw this orange cankered thing on the american chestnuts at that they had on property. So while the the pathagin had been in the usa killing trees prior to that, we kind of used that 19 o four,. when we knew what it was, wene what was attacking the speciesd And by 19 50, virtually every mature tree in the eastern us. Had been eliminated.