*SOLD* 2 pieces of D. odorifera

[Mr. Peet]

@Mike Hill i also got involved trying to restore the chestnuts. My dad talked about them all the time. I got 2 trees for his yard and 2 for mine. One of mine never woke up/started to grow. His are doing good. There is Reportedly a small stand about 10 miles from my house. I’d love to gather some seeds from there. I’d like to see more done with the ash trees. I fear we may loose all of them except the blue ash. I read the blue ash has a 50+ percent survival rate against the emerald ash bores vs much much lower for many of the other varieties

PM me the location of those chestnuts and I will see if they are mapped and recorded with The American Chestnut Foundation.

There are a few ash restoration research facilities. Sadly, those showing the best resilience to EAB are also poor structure for lumber. There does not appear to be any Black or White timber type showing positive results yet. There are a few Green ash cultivars that show some. And the Blue you have already mentioned. There is also restoration in process for Ameican beech dealing with Leaf Blight, which the nematodes have since been matched perfectly (via DNA) to nematodes in Japanese beech in Japan. However, they have not officially said that they are the same. There is also a drive for Eastern and Carolina hemlock seed going on in NC and VA to conbat WA (wooly adelgid).

 

[Mike Hill]

Ash, - had to cut down a 70+ year old white ash next to the house that was showing signs of decline and had quite a number of dead limbs that I did not want hitting the house. Sorely miss that tree. It was my nursery tree. It's shade is where I would hold my cuttings, transplants, seed trays and such while they hardened up enough to be put elsewhere. Right now, all I have is sun right there. Right now, with no leaves on what trees I have left, I have very limited shade.

I have never seen a live, mature chestnut. I'll have to go exploring when I retire. Seems that @2feathers Creative Making has some in his neck of the woods! A pretty large one (over 50' tall) was found recently. Unfortunately it had a canker and had borne nuts, but were sterile because of no pollination.

Nashvegas is really behind the chestnut recovery. There are a couple of adjoining nature parks here, that have a combined acreage of about 3,200 acres. They have planted all of 5 chestnut trees of various recovery types. Really going all out.

 

[Nature Man]

Where I grew up in Tacoma, Washington, there was a HUGE Horse Chestnut tree on the school grounds of my elementary school! Remember it vividly. Haven't been back to that area in decades, so don't know if it is still there. Chuck

 

[daniscool]

Where I grew up in Tacoma, Washington, there was a HUGE Horse Chestnut tree on the school grounds of my elementary school! Remember it vividly. Haven't been back to that area in decades, so don't know if it is still there. Chuck

Horse chestnut is very common. I don’t think it is affected by the disease either.

 

[Mr. Peet]

Ash, - had to cut down a 70+ year old white ash next to the house that was showing signs of decline and had quite a number of dead limbs that I did not want hitting the house. Sorely miss that tree. It was my nursery tree. It's shade is where I would hold my cuttings, transplants, seed trays and such while they hardened up enough to be put elsewhere. Right now, all I have is sun right there. Right now, with no leaves on what trees I have left, I have very limited shade.

I have never seen a live, mature chestnut. I'll have to go exploring when I retire. Seems that @2feathers Creative Making has some in his neck of the woods! A pretty large one (over 50' tall) was found recently. Unfortunately it had a canker and had borne nuts, but were sterile because of no pollination.

Nashvegas is really behind the chestnut recovery. There are a couple of adjoining nature parks here, that have a combined acreage of about 3,200 acres. They have planted all of 5 chestnut trees of various recovery types. Really going all out.

Upper UP has a stand of native American chestnut. I long to see it. It has dozens of trees 70 feet plus tall and 2 foot DBH's and nuts galore....One of many dreams.

 

[rob3232]

Upper UP has a stand of native American chestnut. I long to see it. It has dozens of trees 70 feet plus tall and 2 foot DBH's and nuts galore....One of many dreams.

We have a large stand near us in Wisconsin also. It’s on the bucket list to visit. Maybe this year. Less than 10 miles away.

Save the trees! UW-La Crosse researchers, students work toward American chestnut disease cure | All In Wisconsin

The loud, shrill clanking of a hammer hitting metal breaks the cheery chorus of birds singing mid-morning in May. With the stark, metallic sound you would think the trees are being harmed, but the opposite is true. Scientists from UW-La Crosse, Michigan State University, the University of West...

www.wisconsin.edu

 

[Nature Man]

We have a large stand near us in Wisconsin also. It’s on the bucket list to visit. Maybe this year. Less than 10 miles away.

Save the trees! UW-La Crosse researchers, students work toward American chestnut disease cure | All In Wisconsin

The loud, shrill clanking of a hammer hitting metal breaks the cheery chorus of birds singing mid-morning in May. With the stark, metallic sound you would think the trees are being harmed, but the opposite is true. Scientists from UW-La Crosse, Michigan State University, the University of West...

www.wisconsin.edu

When you stop by there, please post a few pics.

 

[Mike Hill]

Have not heard of those hypoviruses!

 

[Mr. Peet]

Have not heard of those hypoviruses!

They have only been really looked into since 2010 by TACF. It is a slow science, but that is to limit mistakes.

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

Ash, - had to cut down a 70+ year old white ash next to the house that was showing signs of decline and had quite a number of dead limbs that I did not want hitting the house. Sorely miss that tree. It was my nursery tree. It's shade is where I would hold my cuttings, transplants, seed trays and such while they hardened up enough to be put elsewhere. Right now, all I have is sun right there. Right now, with no leaves on what trees I have left, I have very limited shade.

I have never seen a live, mature chestnut. I'll have to go exploring when I retire. Seems that @2feathers Creative Making has some in his neck of the woods! A pretty large one (over 50' tall) was found recently. Unfortunately it had a canker and had borne nuts, but were sterile because of no pollination.

Nashvegas is really behind the chestnut recovery. There are a couple of adjoining nature parks here, that have a combined acreage of about 3,200 acres. They have planted all of 5 chestnut trees of various recovery types. Really going all out.

I have seen a couple live, undamaged chestnut trees and a couple that had been cut down due to the blight at about 12 inch diameter. The live ones are off limits to anyone who isn't family or needs to work on the home at that location. I was fortunate enough to do some work on the house. The property is in the north east portion of White county in a low density area as far as people go. Most of that little dead end road is owned by one family .

 

[Mike Hill]

I have seen a couple live, undamaged chestnut trees and a couple that had been cut down due to the blight at about 12 inch diameter. The live ones are off limits to anyone who isn't family or needs to work on the home at that location. I was fortunate enough to do some work on the house. The property is in the north east portion of White county in a low density area as far as people go. Most of that little dead end road is owned by one family .

I figured you had. Have always heard tales of live trees in your area.