Murder Mysteries, But For Trees
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In 1904, somebody noticed a sick tree at the Bronx Zoo. Within 50 years, the fungus killing it had wiped out about four billion American Chestnut trees from Maine all the way down to Georgia. In 2018, Richard Powers wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel... Hosted on beehiiv. Read the full Privacy Policy at https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy.
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