| Butternut
in West Virginia |
Fores-@aol.com |
| Aug
10, 2003 13:49 PDT |
Hi
all:
In much of West Virginia, butternut can still commonly be found
but nearly
all trees are badly cankers and dying from butternut canker
blight.
Since being in WV I have found very few butternut trees in
excess of 20" DBH
or more than 90' tall. A few years ago, I had a dead butternut
salvaged from
a sale that sawed out 375 board feet of lumber. That tree was
not large in
diameter but had very little taper as they got 72' of logs to a
10" tip. At
this time, it has become nearly impossible to locate a
completely healthy
butternut tree.
Although we still get some very good seed years....2003 looks
like a real
winner.
In WV, butternut is pretty much considered commercially extinct.
The WV DoF
has a very good price that they pay for butternuts seeds for the
state
nursery.
The only really healthy butternut trees I have encountered in
the past few
years have been Japanese butternuts.
Russ Richardson |
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