[MassChestnutOrchards] B3F3 Nuts

[Fred Hebard]

Hi Lois,

My only comment, other than to have enjoyed your post and its  
recommendations, is that Meadowview's success is not assured at the  
moment.  We have trees that came through the breeding program as  
specified.  Earlier generations of crosses appeared to have  
sufficient resistance to fare well in the forest, giving us hope that  
this generation will also.  But we don't know yet.  I still have a  
lot of trepidation.

It's hard to convey this without inducing too much pessimism or too  
much optimism.  At this point, I am cautiously optimistic.

Fred

Frederick V. Hebard, PhD
Staff Pathologist, Meadowview Research Farms
American Chestnut Foundation
14005 Glenbrook Ave.
Meadowview, VA 24361

Email: Fred at acf.org
Web: http://www.acffarms.org
Phone: (276) 944-4631
Fax: (276) 944-0934


On Dec 13, 2009, at 2:23 PM, loisbreau at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Rufin,
>
> We agree with you. Let's do as much good as we possibly can with  
> the B3F3's in an organized way next spring. We are all so hopelessy  
> overinvolved as to ever be able to claim impartiality, but the fact  
> is Meadowview's success is something so important and so worthy of  
> celebration that we think it will attract major media attention.  
> The legislative aide to our State Rep. wrote to the Governor's  
> office to see if the Governor would be interested in planting a few  
> B3F3's as part of the annual parks volunteer day next April but we  
> haven't had a response yet. We could do something cool with Arbor  
> Day at Tower Hill Botanic Garden or Old Sturbridge Village etc.
>
> We'd be glad to help brainstorming after the holidays. We sent in  
> our money for 6 B3F3's and we'll be doing Brad's "Chestnuts For  
> Dummies" presentation for the Chief Forester and other Boston  
> office senior staff soon too.
>
> Lois & Denis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Hebard <Fred at acf.org>
> To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org; Rufin Van Bossuyt  
> <rufin at charter.net>
> Cc: Glen Rea <glenrea42 at msn.com>; Bryan Burhans <bryan at acf.org>
> Sent: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 1:11 pm
> Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] B3F3 Nuts
>
> Rufin, One thing we hope to get all the chapters involved in soon  
> is installing restoration plantings. We need to start getting test  
> plantings of Meadowview nuts out throughout the range of chestnut,  
> to start getting a better idea of how far the trees can move and  
> whether the severity of blight and other diseases or pest  
> conditions changes with location. Bryan has a rather thorough plan  
> for doing this that he has been incubating since he got here, which  
> he will start presenting to the chapters shortly. The nuts you are  
> eligible to receive could be pledged to the Mass Chapter's first  
> restoration planting. This might be an excellent use for them. Fred  
> Frederick V. Hebard, PhD Staff Pathologist, Meadowview Research  
> Farms American Chestnut Foundation 14005 Glenbrook Ave. Meadowview,  
> VA 24361 Email: Fred at acf.org Web: http://www.acffarms.org Phone:  
> (276) 944-4631 Fax: (276) 944-0934 On Dec 13, 2009, at 10:24 AM,  
> Rufin Van Bossuyt wrote: > I have been informed that I am eligible  
> to receive 15 B3F3 > Restoration chestnuts. I can accept the nuts  
> or make them available > to our chapter. > I prefer to make them  
> available to our chapter. > I would like to have them planted at  
> significant existing orchard > locations such as: Tower Hill  
> Botanic Garden, Moore State Park, > Mass. Fish and Wildlife,  
> Quabbin Reservoir, River Bend State Park, > etc. > Others in our  
> chapter will also be eligible to receive B3F3 nuts. > Maybe they  
> too would like to make them available for planting by > the  
> chapter. > We could start the nuts in pots in a location that is  
> protected > from the various animals that would like to eat them  
> and where they > would get good care by watering etc. We could then  
> plant the > seedlings and again have good protection for them. >  
> Any thoughts? > > Rufin >  
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