| Book Review | Environmental History, 13.4

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Book Review

American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree. By Susan Freinkel. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. 284 pp. Notes and index. Cloth, $27.50.

The American chestnut was an iconic tree to Appalachia, to some the "redwood of the east" (p. 147). Each tree produced nearly six thousand nuts per year, and by the early twentieth century it provided one quarter of all hardwood lumber harvested in the southern Appalachians (p. 26). But the chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica), a fungus discovered in the 1900s (and scientifically named later), changed all that. By the 1950s, it had killed 3–4 billion chestnut trees.

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