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One of the grandest trees of the North
American forest is absent from most forests today because of a
disease brought across the ocean in the bark of its distant
Asian relatives. The chestnut once was the primary food
crop of the southeastern forest. Today chestnut trees
can be found in the forest, but these are usually just stems
from a mature tree that long ago died and continues to fight
against an infection of blight.
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