Killing American Chestnut trees is an awful thing to do, we're still fighting for them to have a future
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The govenor now plans to move the 50 year old chestnut trees. Those trees are likely between 75 and 100 ft tall. I have no idea how many will survive the move, but I can't imagine its a high percentage.
No More, just no fucking more. This is catastrophic.
The datacenter must be considered a liar until proven otherwise. These trees are too important to take a corporation with no morals at its word.
American's talk about heritage. These trees are actual american heritage, we can't let them be cut down.
The forests died for your sins.
Yeah like a google chrome but on your phone
FFFFFFuck that's bad. That's a big goddamn problem.
There's a google app?
Eww creepy spy links
Probably rhetorical question but they used google links because they use the google app, which tracks every link you share. Don't use the google app, folks
American chestnuts are rare to the point you can register individual trees. Groves out west only exist because the blight can't cross the US from the east coast to infect them. This could wipe out some of the last remaining natural american chestnuts in existance.
It's the saddest ending to the American Chestnut story I would have imagine.
I need to read the wiki again, but if I may exaggerate, American Chestnut trees were everything people needed to survive. From 1500s to 1800s Chestnuts could be harvested for fuel, food, and shelter. All until the blight and now this..
Not sure why you used google links. Here are the non-google links:
- Center for Plant Conservation https://saveplants.org/
- Spirit of Trees https://spiritoftrees.org/
- American Forests https://www.americanforests.org/
- The Nature Conservancy https://www.nature.org/
- National Forest Foundation https://www.nationalforests.org/
American Chestnuts are so rare I almost replied to your comment to say there's no way those are American Chestnuts, just Chestnut trees in America. Then I read the article. Holy shit.
Literally just exclaimed NOOOOO! American Chestnuts are so very rare.
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Center for Plant Conservation https://share.google/jA8GUdQZo1IxXdOqI
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Spirit of Trees https://share.google/UEv3vitNl8PgoYAue
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American Forests https://share.google/w3OPZtCEgLTcEogb1.
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The Nature Conservancy https://share.google/j5iSnIsxhMBr3vXcq
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National Forest Foundation https://share.google/4C6FXSinyWXk5EEBU
What do you call a pair of nuts on your chest? Chestnuts... and what do you call two balls on your chin? That's right! A data center in your mouth.
When the last one dies it will transform back into an old man in a cloak with zero explanation of wtf is going on.
going to let all the old trees die without planting new ones? soon enough it will just be barren grass
Younger trees are even more vulnerable to extreme heat because their root systems aren't as developed.
So many people are ignoring it anyway. At least, around my hometown
The best kind of crime
At what point do we see people taking action to protect the planet from these shitheels? Do we chain ourselves to the last tree while the wildfires spread through the dry brush and the landslides get worse every time it rains because there's nothing holding the soil together?
If you know of one in your area, be a champ and water it illegally.
It would need to be grass with very deep roots. This exists, but it afaik struggles to grow with the typical compacted soils we have due to decades of mechanized agriculture and groundwater depletion.
On the broader topic, the sad thing about planting trees is that it is super hard to find a species that will grow well now and still do well in 40+ years given the +4°C trajectory we are on. The change is happening too rapidly for long lived species like trees.
I agree with the sentiment, but it might be good to wait and plant when rains are expected. Unless your planting very drought tolerant stuff.
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