[joe_the_user]

Interestingly, I just walked out to a large chestnut tree on Spring Street by my place in Nevada City, CA and measured it's circumference - I got 127 inches, roughly - getting the tape measure around it was a bit challenging. It might be 40-50 feet tall but there is another much taller with less diameter down the hill from it (tree mentioned in article is 50 ft tree, 35 inch diameter, pretty average for here).

There are many chestnut trees in the town, planted in the gold rush days, I believe. last fall, I gathered enough nuts walk around town to supplement my diet for a few months. The nuts haven't started falling this year.

Of course, these tree survived the blight because they're well outside the range of the Eastern Chestnut. But still, if someone wants to see chestnut trees, they're here and probably in a lot of places where they were planted outside their range.

[quixoticelixer-]

You can get non american chestnut trees all throughout the united states. It's only the american one has the disease problem

[joe_the_user]

And you can find American chestnut trees scattered around the West Coast.

Here's a story about one in Oregon.

https://acf.org/our-community/news/passing-of-an-iconic-amer...