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I am johns family ,my last name is wright , johns and duff is my family. I would love to know the tung

As a Black being involved in small farm outreach and education in cooperative extension with an HBCU, you have helped me understand the historical context that I am in and whose shoulders I stand on. I thank you 🙏🏿🌱

I feel like the American chestnut probably grew much larger than 100 ft because we have trees in Maine that get over 100ft rather quickly. We also know from historical records that it easily competes with tulip poplar and there have been rare cases of tulip poplar nearly reaching 200ft tall.

Why are CT and MA switched on the distribution map?

stilt grass and buffle grass has destroyed much of our woods and field here in King George va. the buffle grass is now spreading to the road siddes and our other fields. we've tried everything to stop it.

My ancestors come from the Johns, Branhams and Masons they were all Monacan

Just found out this history Mann! My great great grandmother was Cherokee my mother said but I think Monacan but wasn’t the both tribes allied.🤦🏽😁

Amazing work

My great grandmother sername is Branham

I am a descendant of the Pinns. I have been looking for some information about the Monacan Nation and what happened with my ancestors

Thank you, I am lost on where I come from this helps. In my family. I am in the 1800

has anyone tried to cultivate european chesnut trees in the USA?

One problem that may have led to the swift deforestation of the Chestnut tree was perhaps that its forests were largely comprised of its own kind excluding other species and varieties of trees and plants. So when the blight caught on, it swept over all the nearby Chestnut trees. It is the diversity of tree species in a forest that forestalls the rapid spread of any single blight. Nature's diversity works against this. Whereas even a healthy diversified tree environment in a given forest may have trees with infections and blights, these are localized and prevented from spreading out to every other tree. So, the 100% healthy American Chestnut tree saplings that are still growing around, should be removed from where they germinate to be transported to an environment where there is a diversity of other trees and shrubs. It is my opinion therefore that that may be the answer to this tree's future survival in the long term. Rather than trying to preserve new saplings in a severely sanitized and controlled environment, they should be nurtured in forest patches densely populated by other varieties of trees and shrubs. All vegetation thrives in diversity. Food foresting is based upon this same principle. Mono-cropping of the Chestnut tree where other kinds of trees and vegetation are excluded will invite the blight to rampage through again.

i am an unenrolled monacan descendant....surname: Beverly ancestors on record back a few centuries

Thank you, excellent presentation. One question about the blight: are there any areas outside the natural range (in other parts of the country) that are not affected?

Excellent presentation. Especially for people who are above average education

can’t we use crispr technology to neuter the virus?

So they mentioned Walter Ashby Plecker. I am assuming that they were misclassified as negro, black, colored or mulatto. LOL.

Best option is full transgenic GMO american chestnut tree. Insert only the genes that confer resistance but the tree is 100% american not some hybridized mess of a tree.

Overjoyed to have have come across this video. My genuine appreciation and thanks to the Ivy Creek Foundation(Susie) for bringing all of the vested parties together. Talk about a walk down memory lane. Mr. Brooks and I were classmates. When he wasn't showcasing his athleticism, he was a natural at 4-H public speaking events. I had the good fortune to have Mr. Gardner as a teacher in middle school (Jack Jouett). Sitting here beaming with pride at his offspring sharing more intimate details about a man I admired. Though I did not meet the Hudson Family, I admire their deep abiding love for their community as evidenced by their devotion and service to members of their community. Miss Tanesha makes an excellent point of respecting land as a worthy inheritance to value. Though I didn't have the good fortune to work with Ellie I admired her from afar, often hearing about her dedication for serving young people in the Albemarle County community from my foster-father. My 4-H Club membership was during the time of the late Mr. Manno, and by the time I had returned from military duty overseas Ellie's name seemed to be more of a prominent fixture at the extension office, which had by then had moved from its Market Street Post Office location over to Mcintire Rd. Judging from the input from the Gardner sisters, Ellie certainly deserved all of the fanfare she received. Like Mr. Gardner's son, I also spent many long days feeding farm animals down in Gordonsville on the Janel Farm, a combination of my foster-parents' first names joined together. Some of my more happier memories was when folks would stop by and buy our farm fresh eggs. What a lasting legacy each of these families have carved out for years to come. These hardworking trailblazers represent the best of mankind, each in their own way modeling respectful & responsible behaviors to emulate. I'm especially grateful that Mr. Butler and his wife Nellie (RIP heavenly angel) opened their home to a skinny 10 year old kid, and put me on a trajectory of success in a stable home environment for over a decade in my youth. As Ellie described in her kind remarks about Mr. Butler's gracious nature, I too have always felt the Grace of God lead the Butlers to me. As a present day educator I make every effort to see the vast potential in any student entrusted in my care. They can thank the Butlers for that. So nice to see "cousin Nan" as I was so proud to call her in my youth and in our present day correspondence as well. Thanks for reaching out to Nan for an up close and personal assessment of this wonderful man and his wife. For those of you with some free time on your hands, please consider taking in the following event next month sponsored by a worthy organization she presides over... www.eventbrite.com/e/scrabble-schoolrosenwald-documentary-premiere-tickets-669519921107 Thanks for the virtual walk down memory lane. Cheers to all the families documented in this beautiful documentary. May God's Grace and Blessings be upon each of you.

Why not just make all of the American Chestnut trees wear a n-95 face mask and social distance?

(Pi:ląhuk. Nahą:pipi Charles mįkilá:kewa. Raleigh, NC watí:wa. Míma Monacan Yesą.) Thank you. Good day. My name is Charles. I live in Raleigh, NC. I am of the Monacan people. Thanks Ladies and Dr. Hantman!

I see a lot of dolls roll aka $5 lol lol lol lol talkin about goin back to the original lol lol dam sure didn’t look like no o e on this whole dam live lol lol lol lol lol keep doin u keep beliving in the lie n dam British subject lol lol

Adadolisdi to all my real aboriginals 🪶🦅🏹🐢....copper colored indigenous aboriginals. Tutelo saponi Powhatan Cherokee Creek Shawnee Blackfoot etc.....you 5$ Indians are pretending. Stole our identity our land everything. Time is up feathers up 🪶🦅🏹🐢

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This excellent presentation makes me want to start over again as a geologist. I considered it when I was young, looking at a globe thinking how North & South America Continental boundaries fit so well with Europe & Africa … way to close to think it was a coincidence. Decades later, after the continental rift proved it had split apart, I was not surprised oil was discovered off Brazil since oil had been discovered in the corresponding African region. I also really liked Nick Zentnor’s TH-cam videos for his Central Washington geology students during the pandemic lockdowns. I still have seismographs from the seismometer I made for high school. I suspect a huge slow motion convection current between the crust and Iron core is slowly pulling the continents apart. The heat differential causing 1000 miles of mantle to be slightly less dense would cause it to rise up under the Atlantic rift, then laterally away from the rift zone and then down along the pacific ring of fire. I’d love to see someone develop a complete chronology 3D global model of the convection currents pushing the crust around. A couple billion years ago, the moon was much closer to the earth and probably had a major influence on internal earth geology due to tidal influence & transfer of angular momentum. And the moon’s creation from a huge planetoid collision with the earth must have defined the beginnings of the internal magma currents. The history of internal convection currents could incorporate the creation of the moon

I am always stunned by what geologists have been able to figure out.

I'm a granddaughter of Frances John's from Amherst VA..

Excellent talk.

My Mother was a Johns and I have a relative that told me he traced our roots back to the Monicans. He is now deceased so I can’t speak with him. I would love to find out my connection with you. My mother also had some cousins by the name of Hicks.

Thank you! I am a Branham descendant ‼️

Great speaker

Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

Geology is not rocket science - it is rock science.

Thank you. I love Geology.

These are such good quality sessions that they should substitute what teachers are presenting in school. Teacher should be there to tie these together!

Excellent presentation! Learning is fun! I appreciate your enthusiasm for the subject.

WONDERFUL. JOB. GUYS. 💕💕😇😇😇

Very cool presentation, thank you for the work! After reviewing these two fundamentally different but same goals for the restoration of the American Chestnut, it is undoubtedly noticeable that the transgenic work of SUNY most likely is the best bet for Castanea dentata's future in the wild. Not to look down on the years of work done by cross breeding and hybridization, but having a 101% American Chestnut that can share its ability to break down oxalic with native trees will be a much better long term goal than mixed breed trees in our forests.

This is more white washing at it's finest, who in the hell would want to be a slave , in the kitchen or field! If the kitchen work was so easy then why didn't white women do the work? She left the part out about the master's and other white men in the families raping and brutalizing these cooks, maids etc.

No.... GMOs will ruin the American chestnut permanently. The time-tested technique of selective breeding is the only way to go forward.

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I'm as academia calls a rouge amateur archaeologist aka looter, however I never dig and only search sites being destroyed or threatened. This rouge looter a couple months ago discovered a significant Monacan Ceremonial Complex, burial ground(maybe a mound), and perhaps even more. There was likely a 19th century structure nearby. Aerial view of adjacent property it's possible several effigy mounds exists and they are shaped how gods and goddesses are portrayed on stone, bone, wood, walnut shells, ceramic items, what I believe are copper items (not tested), and points. Sites initial habitation is probably early archaic according to point types, but lasted into colonial contact. I figure 1742/43 per sources. Oh real quick outlines shown at 20:40 appear to be shaped like the spirit gods as seen on most recovered items. It is seen again on left pottery at 35:53. Ogee god of underworld , the Great Hare a rabbit, a female divinity are easily seen. I basically know what 5 gods look like, but can only name a few. Gods are same as Powatan's. They are always in a similar pose. Two and two, two tall and 2 short on left and right facing each other. 2 shorter ones are often seen kissing with 2 taller occasionally kissing or biting faces. Ogee always overshadows. Information is hard to come by with no images seemingly available, only some attributes and names. No disrespect, but I must conclude archaeologist have not realized the full extent of pictographs and petroglyphs that exist at sites, Even quartz, yes quartz and finely sculpted. Now it did take me over 30 years to realize, and had I not found a few caches of decorated and carved bone in June 2022 I wouldn't have noticed. I am aware quartz can contain petrified fossils in my area, be assured this is not the case. Btw, I'm former FBI certified hostage negotiator, senior emergency communications officer, emt and trained observer. What I am proclaiming I know sounds too good to be true, but for once it is. There are other things going on which confirm and 2 independant and separate confirmations from trusted sources. I've studied way more than my wife likes, and more than I care to admit, but I had to crack what was I was seeing. There are stellas, sculptures with quality equal to any great ancient civilization. It took some time to realized what was going on because honestly I'd never seen anything like this in 36 years of doing this. Once realized, I ceased artifact hunting and contacted Virginia Department of Historic Resources, several times including again today!!Northern division, and initially spoke with state director Moore. Site is currently threatened, and until 25 years ago it was 100% intact. Now a home with basement, two car garage and fenced area over possible mound with dog penned digging and bringing well preserved artifacts to surface. Elaborately carved and decorated wood totems and pillars. Some are carved with bark figures attached which were placed over exact carvings giving a 3 dimensional appearance. All fire hardened with limited information it is possible a fire occurred as some pieces are pure charcoal still remaining in original design. Site is remarkable and even with more recent construction it is mainly intact. I can't seem to get owner to understand that dog needs moved. I even offered, I will deny up and down I said this lol. Again it is remarkable, seems encased in an enhanced clay of sorts. Soil is extremely difficult to break up, and it contains unfired clay figures. 25 years after home built and around foundations chunks of unbroken soil still remain. There are also what I can only call mosaics in form of warrior with animal skin headdress. Stones are placed and ok ne near side door is hold a totem either completely clay or soil has filled area where wood once was. I discovered while landscapeing and covered it back up alone with holes in dog pen. I did recover as much as possible fir preservation. I wish I wasn't forced to do this, but had no choice with dog. Also, I was told site has been family's possession for generations and until now they were clueless, how could you know?? The oak trees surrounding main burial section are at least several hundred years old. Artifacts are everywhere, and all are ceremonial in nature including points. There are decorated and painted walnut shells, peach shells, acorns, bone, beads, pieces of oyster shell, wood, small to large sculptures everywhere, and a thick wool like material occasionally comes to surface. Many depict a mother holding her child, burial scenes, and scenes with human sacrifice (I know touchy subject, but no one today is responsible), and sun god with Native throwing up gold, with gold color. Site is not far from Rapidan River in Orange County that's all I'm saying for now. We would like someone to come, it would be welcomed so much. My wife, son and I are residing here until house is finished. Sorry for being so long winded, but it's a beautiful site. One last thing, the white man has forgotten, but the respectable 1st Nation peoples have not. First Nation people will know what I mean 😉 First Nation people, from my heart I am deeply sorry for what my European ancestors did to you.

I’m sure there were a heavy population of Black Locust which bloom at the same time.

Great job, Tom.

You stole the Natives identity!!!!

You say we....are you ladies 5 dollar Indians??? Because the Natives were not Caucasian...at ALL!!

we bought a few from the VA Dept of Forestry and have set them out on our acreage in Halifax County.

Interesting 🤔 thank you for sharing this with the masses♥️

Is there s chapter in Indiana? And when can the public get trees to plant? To often when they replant an area its all pine and not hardwoods