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Andrew Conboy

#196 September 2025/Urban Nature

A pair of chestnut trees in Wissahickon Valley Park are mysteriously unscathed by pathogenic fungus

In June 2023, I followed my friend Josh Ferguson from Keystone Permaculture past old, arching oaks and tall tulip poplars along a path in Carpenter’s Woods in Wissahickon Valley Park in search of a rare and intriguing pair of trees he had heard about. We eventually arrived at two initially normal-looking trees: a 45-foot tree

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September 1, 2025
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