Good video on the American Chestnuts . I sure would love to walk though a grove of these giants.

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

Wish I could have seen them.

Thats pretty sad

I want to one day walk through a forest like what was present preflood. Maybe I’ll get that opportunity one day.

Landowner in Jackson county told me about the mountains looking snow covered in the summer when he was a kid.

That was quite interesting, thanks for sharing

When I was younger I used to run across old carcasses and stumps . I had one carcass I would sit in and hunt when it was raining. I've seen ol stump carcasses easily 8-10' across. They're all gone now , there's no evidence in the woods now they ever existed .

Great video. Same type thing is happening to Ash trees. Areas in Tennessee every Ash is dead. Starting to find it in north Alabama.

Thanks to the emerald ash borer.

Hemlocks are being taken by the hemlock wooly adelgid.

We just keep importing crap here that kills our forests.

China strikes again.

savage gulf in tennessee still has giant first growth trees - but not chestnuts ...
thank you for the video. what a tragedy ...

I would love to have seen the country pre-European settlement. Another element of the Eastern woodlands that is gone was the passenger pigeon. They must have had quite an effect on the forests.
Passenger Pigeon

There used to be a hug grove not far from where I grew up
It was called Chestnut Ridge
The last ones died out in the ‘70’s and there were at one time hundreds of them

In my line of work I’ve heard this story many times . Seen many documentaries about it at logging schools . Such a sad end to a species that many people relied on. Could happen again on grander scale . We fight pine beetles every year. Some worse than others . Few years back in southren tn I think around 2000 beetles was bad because so dry for two years . Then all red oak trees started dieing in Southern tn . On my bucket list is go see the the giant redwoods when I retire .

This is an old saw mill not too far from where I grew up: in Lacoochee
They cut all of the old growth cypress from the area in the 40's-50's.

There is almost 200 sq miles of swamps east of Lacoochee (Green Swamp/Richloam). Croom, lots of swamps on the Withlacoochee river is just NW of it.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/DrsMNXo6yk8NqwFS7

There is what the National Park Service calls a “ Old Growth forest ” located in the Great Smoky Mountains NP on the Ramsey Cascades trail in the Greenbrier section of the park. It is a sight to see and has the biggest Popular tree I have ever seen. It was 1992 when I hiked through that area.

There is an old gold mine I know of that is now flooded, but it was drained for a little bit back in the 90s. The chestnut timbers inside the mine were still there, still strong, with the bark intact. I'm sure it is the same way today.

There's a lot of the really old houses, cabins and barns around here that have Chestnut in them. If you see a building 100+ years old with very big timbers and wide boards around here , it's most likely Chestnut.