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Re:American chestnut trees are “technically extinct” by aacook on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:31PM (#13486369)
I think the term is "functionally extinct". The blight doesn't affect them until they're 20-30 years old. There's a very good chance they'll die. I don't think they've found a blight-resistant strain yet, just isolated trees, which always eventually get blighted.

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