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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2026
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Literally just exclaimed NOOOOO! American Chestnuts are so very rare.
Center for Plant Conservation https://share.google/jA8GUdQZo1IxXdOqI
Spirit of Trees https://share.google/UEv3vitNl8PgoYAue
American Forests https://share.google/w3OPZtCEgLTcEogb1.
The Nature Conservancy https://share.google/j5iSnIsxhMBr3vXcq
National Forest Foundation https://share.google/4C6FXSinyWXk5EEBU
American Chestnuts are so rare I almost replied to your comment to say there's no way those are American Chestnuts, just Chestnut trees in America. Then I read the article. Holy shit.
It's the saddest ending to the American Chestnut story I would have imagine.
I need to read the wiki again, but if I may exaggerate, American Chestnut trees were everything people needed to survive. From 1500s to 1800s Chestnuts could be harvested for fuel, food, and shelter. All until the blight and now this..
Not sure why you used google links. Here are the non-google links:
Probably rhetorical question but they used google links because they use the google app, which tracks every link you share. Don't use the google app, folks
There's a google app?
Yeah like a google chrome but on your phone
Eww creepy spy links