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I’m pretty sure as of this year their hybrid program is only 80% American with very varied levels of blight resistance. Some come close to Chinese chestnut, and many can still live but they still have larger cankers and some are just barely more resistant than American. However the ozark chinquapin has successfully developed 100% native trees with blight resistance equal to or greater than Chinese chestnut in some of their breeding lines. That is a success story for sure. I’m holding out hope for the American chestnut but more work is definitely needed. I think if we know what we know now when the blight came through we might have already saved the species. I’d also like to mention that the Canadian chestnut council believes they have developed a non-hybrid pure American chestnut with resistance. They didn’t clear cut their chestnut trees in an attempt to stop the spread of the blight which likely helped maintain their genetic diversity and also their population was quite unique already, differing quite a bit from the New England and New York populations.

Great video! Here's a direct link to that excellent chemical control strategy calendar: www.nrcs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Calendar%2Bof%2BControl%2B2021_Landscape.pdf

I have 44 acres in Lincoln county, TN. I have not seen this and I have a lot of sassafras. I do have some dying Ash trees. Will a wood kiln kill the pathogens?

Thank you for this informative video.

Home Depot in the Central Valley California on Hammer Lane in Stockton, at the Home Depot, gave me invasive, jumping worms and I am pissed. They are so bad around the shrubs I bought there…

Thank you , good presentation!

'promosm'

Thank you for this information.

Please check out the planting of EAB resistant Green Ash planted in Detroit 2 years ago in cooperation with the USFS Northern Research Station and Jennifer Koch.

So are we suppose to continue to mulch every year? They eat the mulch. Also we have a half acre lot with several flower beds. It’s turning into a full time gardening job removing the worms and resembles a Steven King horror movie. Also should we remove the bad “dirt” - the granulated dirt that these worms make and put down new top soil. I want to put these dirt granules in our fire pit and burn it. Has anyone contacted master gardeners in Japan to find out how they deal with these worms? They must have some solutions - otherwise Japan would be a desert.

'promosm'

Being an amateur entomologist and etymologist... It really bugs me when people get the origins of words wrong. Also: "It is believed to have arrived here in solid wood packing material." As a result, solid wood packing materials for foreign shipment are now sprayed with so many pesticides and fungicides that 1) I will NOT burn it!!! and 2) We're breeding pesticide resistant Super Bugs.

What about Indiana's Hickory Trees?

Question. For plant trades, if you were to remove and rinse the root mass completely of soil, are their other methods to kill and and all worms and cocoons in that removed soil? So if you have a bucket of the removed soil, would leaving it flooded in water for a certain period work? would adding a bit of dish soap/detergent work?

Great information! Wish we had a better handle where AJW are in Indiana. Haven't found them in Monroe County yet, but we're watching!