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has many other hosts. Post oaks, red maples, and sumacs all provide livingplaces for the fungus. Therefore, by planting Chinese chestnut trees, you will not be spreading the chestnut blight. That damage has already been done. After the blight fungus became established on ornamental trees at New York City, it quickly spread to the wild American chestnuts. As we know, it was highly pathogenic to the American species. A merciless "urban blight,” it spread from New York City into the wooded countryside, causing drastic changes to the landscape and the people’s lives and livelihoods.
CONTROL ATTEMPTS
Timber owners, and many federal and local government organizations, initiated some desperate operations in an effort to stop the spread of the blight. Swaths of timber (sometimes a mile widel) were cut around infected areas. In Pennsylvania, sanitation cuttings on private land were enforceable by state law.
By 1912, the disease had become established throughout the eastern third of Pennsylvania. The advance of the disease was an ecological catastrophe that surely was the equivalent of an extremely intense wildfire, or a complete widespread
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