TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Donald Edward
TI  - The American chestnut: an environmental history 
SN  - 0820360457
AV  - SD397 .A48 D38 2021
U1  - 634.9/724 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - American chestnut
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; pt. One; Chestnuts on the Move --; ch. 1; The Evolutionary History of the Species --; pt. Two; Chestnut Encounters --; ch. 2; The Seasonal Bounty of Nuts and Acorns --; ch. 3; Wherever There Are Mountains --; ch. 4; The Most Celebrated Hunting Grounds --; ch. 5; Cash Will Be Paid If Delivered Soon --; ch. 6; Placed There by a Quadruped or Bird --; ch. 7; Along All Prominent Thoroughfares --; pt. Three; Chestnut Decline --; ch. 8; The Wonder and Admiration of All --; ch. 9; To Maintain the Balance of Nature --; ch. 10; Grandfather Had Lived in a Log --; ch. 11; A National Calamity --; pt. Four; Chestnut Revival --; ch. 12; Genes for Blight Resistance
N2  - "'The American Chestnut' tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. While he pays much attention to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree's decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species."--
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