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What We're Reading: Bringing Chestnut Trees Back From the Brink

Summary by Reasons to Be Cheerful
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at info@reasonstobecheerful.world. That old chestnut Once upon a time, American chestnut trees thrived across the forests of the eastern United States. It’s estimated that there were about four billion of them — until a deadly blight began to wipe them out in the late 1800s. Today, the species is considered functionally extinct, bu…
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Reasons to be Cheerful broke the news in on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.
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