185-Restoring The American Chestnut: An All-Out Effort to Save This Iconic Tree
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Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The American chestnut tree spanned the eastern United States and numbered in the billions before blight wiped out most of the population. In this week's episode, I'm sharing my personal affection for the American chestnut and speaking with an expert from The American Chestnut Foundation about what devastated this tree and what's being done to save it.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lampel. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and thanks for listening |
| 0:23.5 | today to the Joe Gardner Show. |
| 0:25.7 | Okay, so today is a podcast that I have been wanting to do for a long time. |
| 0:31.7 | You may know this about me already, but I have a thing for trees, big, small, it doesn't |
| 0:36.1 | matter. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm fascinated with trees. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm that guy that can stand under a tree or near a tree for a long time, just kind of |
| 0:44.4 | in all of this tree, even imagining its life, you know, because they live for so long, |
| 0:50.5 | what has that tree seen? |
| 0:51.8 | You know, just trying to put my head into that place. |
| 0:54.1 | I know that's kind of weird, but some of you might be able to relate to that, actually. |
| 0:57.9 | And if you listened to last week's podcast, we went through a book list of some of my |
| 1:01.6 | favorites, including some updates. |
| 1:03.0 | And one of the updates was a book called Champion, the comeback tale of the American |
| 1:08.1 | Chestnut Tree. |
| 1:09.3 | In preparation for my podcast today on the American Chestnut, the rise, the fall, the |
| 1:14.8 | recovery efforts of it, the fascinating story of this incredible tree, I read this book. |
| 1:19.7 | And I'm not sure when I first fell in love with the Chestnut Tree, but I'm sure it was |
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