[MassChestnutOrchards] News from American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter

[American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter]

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Chestnut Leaves on Forest Tree
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Seedling on Forest Floor
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Inoculation at Tower Hill Orchard
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Important Links
Massachusetts Chapter Web Site [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103590539862&s=2&e=001UFP4pjhYpY-0GQQpsca7npuvBAQJwgsg69OKf_Q1TxaZzgEi_R4o3qF90dn3mNJLSqOOc4gCY7a_IWv3mbmh8sLKD16xdPTEs1r7zGO2Xtk=]
National TACF Web Site [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103590539862&s=2&e=001UFP4pjhYpY__G8OEKoOPZ7TF0tQSGZbJ2OmtyESOp4dcSWVvFubWZVKtHBjzW3s_39Dkup0JAp1PETPyX4PAe5kONuU0o1pz]
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MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER NEWS
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Medway Orchard Inoculations
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Two Crack Teams Move Through 400 Trees in 3 Hours
On the morning of June 19th, two crack teams of Chestnut inoculators completed the
first round of inoculations at the Medway BC3 orchard, managed by Gary Jacob. The
volunteers were divided up into two groups with specialist for boring holes, applying
inoculum, and taping the sites. One volunteer was in charge of reading the orchard
map to make sure the proper trees were being treated. This process is quite simple
once each member of the team learns his job. We encourage all members to help with
inoculations next season, as our chapter will be inoculating thousands of trees 
over the next few years. These trees have been growing for seven years now and are
of the proper size to challenge with two different strains of the chestnut blight.
As this time, the only way we can tell if the correct number of genes for resistance
were conferred to an individual tree is by seeing how each tree reacts to its blight
wound. Most trees will succumb to this challenge but 8% of our trees will have the
appropriate reaction to be spared and continue in our breeding program. The survivor
trees will create nuts for our seed orchards. With one more selection, we will have
trees with Massachusetts genes and blight resistance.

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Check our website masschestnut.org and our email newsletters to see how
you can become involved in this exciting stage of our restoration
efforts.

Sincerely,

Bradford Smith
American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter

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The American Chestnut Foundation is dedicated to the restoration of the American
 Chestnut tree to its former place in the Eastern forests.

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