"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message ...
In my part of Michigan there is disease that goes through the white birch
trees in my woods about once a decade and kills them... Being they are not
a hot political issue no gov't agency has come to my 'rescue' with a cure
worse than the disease... As a result I still have lots of white birch trees
even if the big old ones have died off...

Of course, we don't have any American Chestnut to speak of anymore.