[MassChestnutOrchards] News from American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter

[Frank Howard]

Dear Brad and All, Excellent work! Gratefully, Frank Howard
On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Bradford Smith wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> 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.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:40 PM, American Chestnut Foundation  
>> Massachusetts Chapter <schoolmastersmith at me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Chestnut Leaves on Forest Tree
>>
>> Seedling on Forest Floor
>>
>> Inoculation at Tower Hill Orchard
>>
>> Important Links
>> Massachusetts Chapter Web Site
>> National TACF Web Site
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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