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American Chestnut leaves - photo by Ed Frank |
Smooth bark of a young, 3" diameter American Chestnut -
photo by Ed Frank |
A recent climb for the American Chestnut Foundation http://www.acf.org/
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climber (Mike Riley, an employee) is ascending to do the
pollination. I had bagged the female flowers two weeks earlier.
He is nearing 40' up in this beautiful chestnut in Ashe County,
NC which may stand 60' tall. It is about 5 feet in girth and in
nearly perfect health. It has small non-lethal (yet?) cankers
only in narrow branch bark ridges. The trunk is so smooth
the bark looks very much like young black birch or cherry. Photo
and comments by Will Blozan |
A standing dead chestnut tree in the Smokies with something people don't see very often at all anymore, mature bark.
Photo by Michael Davie. |
82.5 foot tall American Chestnut at Cook Forest, PA - photo
by Carl Harting |
Chestnuts at Cook Forest, PA - photo by Carl Harting |
Russ Richardson wrote (Oct 19,
2005): I have been working in the woods on some private
property adjacent to Coopers Rock State Forest near Morgantown,
WV and have been through an area where the original chestnut
trees were not cut until after the blight. Yesterday,
I encountered a stump that was still sound and identifiable as
chestnut that has rotted a lot since it was cut but the sound
part is still 9' across. The same area has some scattered yellow
birch remnants that are impressive for that part of WV but they
can't compare to some of the old honkers I remember seeing years
ago in the Adirondacks!
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