The banning of DDT had a huge part in doing them in. They were keeping it under control in many places until it was banned, and once it was banned they were forced to try more expensive, more toxic, and less effective against Elm Bark Beetles which spread the fungus.
A real shame. Beautiful trees.
The American chestnut tree died out fairly early in the 20th century, long before any DDT ban. My father planted a couple of hybrids to help bring a form of them back in the 1950s.
Beautiful wood, too. Just a notch or two above oak, IMHO.
The banning of DDT has inflicted so much damage in the world, from extinct trees to bedbug outbreaks to millions of Malaria dead around the world.
And yet here in Pittsburgh the Democrats can’t stop naming things after Rachel Carson.
It had nothing to do with it. The trees were almost all dead long before DDT was banned.
I’m also not sure what the connection to elms is.
So you mean Rachel Carson didn’t limit her murder spree to hundreds of millions of humans?