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The MBTA is pretty directly aimed at stopping waterfowl markets at scale

The MBTA passed cause the passenger pigeon went extinct, and there were commercial operations harvesting ducks by waiting for flocks to land at lakes on their migratory path and sending out rowboats with flak cannons to get them all at once, and people were like wait

With SUNY ESF’s recent success in GMO blight-resistant chestnuts, de-extinction of passenger pigeons is looking better than ever. Personally, I’m planning to put 3,000 chestnut trees in my woods as soon as stock is readily available.

As an aside: Rocky Mountain Locusts haven’t garnered quite the same interest.

Yeah it’s weird when nonhuman things happen at whole-species epidemic scale. Looking back on my childhood there were a lot of trees around with branches amputated and cemented over from Dutch elm disease, and for a few years everyone had to put up traps for those metallic Japanese beetles, then they just disappeared

And the whole time they were preparing us for an invasion of aggressive “Africanized” bees from Mexico, which is pretty hmm in retrospect, and I’ve mentioned how almost all wine grapes come from European vines grafted to American roots after phylloxera almost wiped them out worldwide

When I was passing through Montana a few years ago the big local thing was this beetle that would kill pine trees like an ash borer, but on the way its tunnels would let in this fungus that stained the wood like marbled cheese, which really killed its value as structural lumber but looked pretty cool in finished products so the whole market chain was shifting in response