[MassChestnutOrchards] News from American Chestnut Foundation Massachusetts Chapter

[Guy Shepard]

Brad,
 Great job



Guy Shepard
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From: Bradford Smith <schoolmastersm at hotmail.com>
To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org <masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 9:27 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.


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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