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Pennsylvania. Chestnut Tree Blight Commission
A Pennsylvania state commission devoted to understanding and controlling the devastating chestnut blight epidemic of the early twentieth century. Its detailed reports and bulletins preserve valuable early research on the disease, its spread, and the use of blighted chestnut wood.
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Final report of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission
by Pennsylvania. Chestnut Tree Blight Commission
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The Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission was a government research body active during the chestnut blight crisis of the 1910s. Working under the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it investigated the disease affecting the region’s chestnut trees and studied practical methods for limiting its spread and using timber killed by the blight.
Between 1911 and 1913, the commission issued conference proceedings, scientific bulletins, progress reports, and studies on the blight fungus, disease symptoms, tree treatment, timber utilization, and the fungus’s morphology and life history. Its final report, covering January 1 through December 15, 1913, was published in Harrisburg in 1914.
The commission’s publications remain useful historical records of an important chapter in American forest science and Pennsylvania’s response to an ecological disaster.