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Message: [QUOTE="CONN78SEJ, post: 4010417, member: 10604"] The White Ash die off in Connecticut is easy to see throughout the state, the pale green blotches on the bark and the few healthy leaves on the tree. It’s also a medium sized tree on average and is not a good lumber tree as it rots quickly when exposed to soil and water. It is however, being hard and dense, good for baseball bats and tool handles. Woodworkers though call it a “poor cousin” to oak or maple. As to your American Chestnut numbers, it was over 4 billion during the 1920’s, and remember if you consider the massive size of just one mature American Chestnut before the blight, 4 billion towering American Chestnut trees made billions and billions of board feet of rot resistant beams and lumber, that is still being reclaimed today in old barns and the demolition of old homes. Also, let’s not forget all those chestnuts. Lol. The chestnut blight was a terrible economic and ecological disaster, the White Ash die off, while serious, pales in comparison. The article below written by Mr Bruce Carley is sad, and demonstrates what valuable resource the American Chestnut was, and how it’s demise caused the extinction of many species of insects and birds that lived in it’s branches. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.appalachianwoods.com/flooring/antique-wormy-chestnut-flooring/new-hope/[/URL] [/QUOTE]