[MassChestnutOrchards] News from American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter

[JAMES COULL]

Great job Brad

Jim




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From: Bradford Smith <schoolmastersm at hotmail.com>
To: "masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org" 
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Sent: Thu, July 29, 2010 9:27:23 PM
Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] News from American Chestnut Foundation 
Massachusetts Chapter


Yes, it is easy to do.
Now that I have set up a template it should be very easy.  Even if I weren't 
able to attend an event a 
quick description and picture will make an easy update. 
Brad

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On Jul 29, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Yvonne Federowicz <yvonne.federowicz at gmail.com> 
wrote:


Very nice!  I hope it's simple to do.
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>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  
>>Seedling on Forest Floor  
>>Inoculation at Tower Hill Orchard  
>>Important Links
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>>Massachusetts Chapter Web Site
>>National TACF Web Site
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>>   MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER NEWS  
>>Medway Orchard Inoculations   
>>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  
>>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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