07-01-2016, 04:21 AM
Even down in the hard hit areas I saw a few that still had green leaves. What is the fatality rate once infected? With the American Chestnut it was basically 100 percent but with the ROD it looks more like 90 percent. Catastrophic to be sure but if there are some surviving in each area those that survive will have immunity. There will be a massive dip in the population and a huge change in the makeup of the forest but that's way better than extinction.