LOSS OF NATURAL WEALTH
FIGURE 3.7 The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, was once one of the giant trees of the temperate forests of eastern North America, where it produced vast amounts of food for wildlife and was a source of income for local people. Today, the American chestnut survives mainly as shrubby sprouts from the stumps of trees infected by the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica.
(Eben Lehman/Forest History Society)