A century ago, one in every four big trees in the eastern forests of America was a chestnut, and every autumn the country under them ate for free.
The American chestnut was a giant, a hundred feet tall, and there were close to four billion of them from Maine to the Deep South. Each autumn they dropped a carpet of sweet nuts so thick you raked it up by the sackful. Families roasted them all winter. Hogs and cattle were turned loose in the woods to fatten on them for nothing. Turkey, deer and bear lived off the same mast. The timber, straight and rot-proof, built the barns, the fence posts and the furniture. One tree fed the people, fattened the livestock, carried the wildlife through winter, then built the house.
Then in 1904 a blight arrived on imported Asian chestnut stock, spotted first on the trees at the Bronx Zoo. It moved through the forest at fifty miles a year, and by the 1940s it had killed close to four billion trees, nearly every mature chestnut on the continent. One of the worst ecological catastrophes in the country's history.
Here is the part that should stop you. The tree is not quite dead. The old roots still send up shoots, year after year, that the blight cuts down before they grow tall enough to fruit. A century on, the stumps are still trying, and still failing.
A free harvest that fed a continent every autumn for thousands of years, gone in forty, and still reaching for a sky it will never reach again.
🚨 Many more YouTube channels are destroyed for bogus sexual content claims.
73 days ago my 155K sub WWII history channel was disabled overnight and my 55K channel terminated.
AI’s excuse? “Harmful content involving minors.” Meanwhile the videos only contain 80 year old grainy war footage of tanks and soldiers.
This is dangerous precedent.
Today it’s history channels. Tomorrow it’s documentaries, education, truth, travel and yes the bigger channels will be gone to.
Human review is the minimum we should demand.
If you’re with us: 📷 LIKE if this angers you 📷#YouTubeCensorship #Day72 #WWIIArchive
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CHEMTRAILS HIT THE WATER - HELICOPTER CAUGHT SPRAYING “SACRED LAKE”
A fisherman’s camera catches the unthinkable: a helicopter blasting chemicals straight into the lake where families fish and swim.
He stares in total disbelief. "They're spraying into the water! I'm sure that's great for the fish... and for everybody."
Officials call it “algae treatment.” Locals call it poison.
No warnings. No signs. Just a low-flying chopper dumping mist over the water like it’s a test site.
The state says it’s “eco-friendly.”
The people say it’s bio-control.
I have some bad news
The CO teacher who was fired for allegedly forcing girls to make out in class got a new job as an elementary school teacher in Malley Drive Elementary School in @Adams12.
You can contact superintendent Chris Gdowski here: 720-972-4000
If you only learn 3 knots for the woods, start here:
• Bowline
• Two Half Hitches
• Trucker's Hitch
A fixed loop, a tie-off, and a tensioning system will handle a huge percentage of outdoor tasks.
#Bushcraft#Knots
This is the kind of stuff old men make for their grandkids and the kids don’t know what to make of it cause it’s not high-speed, low-drag fun
Then 30 years later, they look back and realize what a good man Grandpa was
Biden's pardon of Fauci is unconstitutionally vague, covers 10 years of potential crimes, and was signed by autopen without Biden's direct authorization. You can't pardon someone for crimes never specified. This should be challenged in court.
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🇫🇷🎻🏰 INSOLITE | Ce groupe normand de musique médiévale reprend « Beat It » de Michael Jackson avec des instruments d’époque. Le résultat est bluffant : on a l’impression d’entendre un tube joué dans une taverne du XIVe siècle. 😂
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