I have found 2 large American chestnuts in Monroe county PA.....one was on a boy scout reservation (not sure if still alive) the other in a gated community growing near road. Both had burs but no viable nuts. I have also found some small bushy American chesntuts growing in Northampton county along the Appalachian trail that had burs on them (growing in full sun).
Interesting talk. I remember where Chestnut trees grew as a kid. I also remember them being cut down to widen roads. Was curious to know how to identify them if by chance any survived humans. One area became a school parking lot so probably not. The other a driveway that might have hope in the surrounding woodland. The leaves look similar to Beech. Which seem to be heading for the same fate here in Maine. Old growth beech & ash are failing at a frightening pace to my eye...
This week I heard there is a crop 0f American Chestnuts in Tasmania from an American Forestry worker who lived there from the man himself. Planted by another American in the 1800's before the blight from Japan ravaged the American Chestnut.
Do you have any further details which might help me make contact regarding this? I am engaged in the restoration effort, and am also 10th generation appalachia with an Australian wife, & children living there. We travel back & forth regularly. I would love to visit such a site. Thanks
With all due respect how are we going to save this tree when there are so many hybrids already in North America? Won't the Hybrids cross pollinate with the American chestnut to create a different species?
I use to live ina naborhool in buffalo ny acros the street from where presidential McKinley died many tree were in the hood its funn watchin the squrils try to hid them
I now have submitted twice samples leaves for identification. Two years ago and last year. Called they have sample but will not respond. Ralph Daugstrup. This is not the organization that should be supported.
Get this guy to write the presentation, but get somebody - nearly ANYBODY - else to deliver it. His content isn't bad, but his delivery is absolutely HORRIBLE. His uhm delivery is uh, kind of ah, like trying er, trying to uh, listen to ummm, one of those uhhh, "Valley girl" types from, err, the 80s. You know, the ones that became the butt of derisive jokes from all directions because they sounded like they had about the brains of a squirrel-fart.
Obviously, you noted the difference from a scripted and unscripted presentation. Congratulations. He was sharing his knowledge, but you are more concerned with the aesthetics. That says more about you than him.
So you must be more interested in freezing/sweating, eating only raw food, and walking nude everywhere you go during your life. Kinda like a caveman before fire was invented. Good for you. I love to see people with the passion and mindset of giving their all for a cause. That way you can die self-righteously knowing you lived a life with the least impact on earth's environment.
Have one right down from my house and a couple in the woods near my house, then one down the road with a DBH of 41, got to be over 100 years old at least. I think there's a misconception about the native range as I've found them throughout the Midwest around the Mississippi river.
It's too wide spread. It's like saying we should change covid so people don't get sick. Oak trees also have the blight but it doesn't affect them like it does the Chestnuts. Blight is airborne, and it's carried my animals and insects
I thought that chestnuts are self compatible? But the reason this is so rare, and generally requires multiple trees is because on the same tree the male and female flowers bloom at different times.
GMO is the way to gp. Hopefully government and the radical environmentalista will get out of the way. Crosses arre chinese chestnuts not American ones.
