[MassChestnutOrchards] News from American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter

[Yvonne Federowicz]

Very nice!  I hope it's simple to do.

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts
Chapter <schoolmastersmith at me.com> wrote:

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> Chestnut Leaves on Forest Tree [image: fall leaves sunlight]
>  Seedling on Forest Floor [image: seedling woods]
>  Inoculation at Tower Hill Orchard [image: charlotte inoculation]
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>      MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER NEWS  *Medway Orchard Inoculations*
> *Two Crack Teams Move Through 400 Trees in 3 Hours
> *
> [image: Medway inoculators]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.
>
>       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
> 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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