Someday the forests in our parks may be graced by thousands of chestnut trees, like they were 120 years ago, but I will never see it. It would take a human lifespan for an American chestnut (or pretty much any tall forest tree in our climate) to grow into a satisfyingly massive tree, and I am probably past the halfway point of mine. But on a recent walk…
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