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The Giving Tree
Baltimore magazine
|December 2017
The American chestnut makes a comeback.
AT THE TURN of the 20th century, the Eastern United States was covered in billions of chestnut trees. In some places, such as the Appalachian Mountains and Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where they thrived in sandy soil, one-quarter of all hardwoods were the majestic chestnut, known as the “Redwoods of the East,” as some stood more than 100 feet tall.
This story is from the December 2017 edition of Baltimore magazine.
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