There was a tree that survived at least until 1996, the last time I was at J&N car wash in Hanford Bay, N.Y. Cornell college used to come get some of the nuts every year
Yea probaly; but it will take decades before true froest growing American Chesnuts can be planted successfully over their true range, where the blight exists, which is over of all their true range.
They are being crossbred with Chinese Chesnuts to produce resistant saplings. There are also a few American Chesnuts still out there that have been located that may have developed their own resistance. There are alot of efforts to bring them back, it will just take a while.
Some say, had the stewards of this land for more than 10k years not been removed by Europeans, who had inferior knowledge of biology and the environment, that die-offs like this could've easily been avoided... But America!!! F yea!!!
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There was a tree that survived at least until 1996, the last time I was at J&N car wash in Hanford Bay, N.Y. Cornell college used to come get some of the nuts every year
Very cool!
But on a good point they are making a comeback.
I planted one of the new hybrids this fall on top of a sunny hill
Awesome work!
Melissa some of you guys damn Geniuses out there couldn't get the seeds to restart again
Can they be brought back
Yea probaly; but it will take decades before true froest growing American Chesnuts can be planted successfully
over their true range, where the blight exists, which is over of all their true range.
They are being crossbred with Chinese Chesnuts to produce resistant saplings. There are also a few American Chesnuts still out there that have been located that may have developed their own resistance. There are alot of efforts to bring them back, it will just take a while.
You mean turkeys perfer Americans over chinquapin?
I know of one up on the hill behind my house, I don’t even walk near the thing.
Some say, had the stewards of this land for more than 10k years not been removed by Europeans, who had inferior knowledge of biology and the environment, that die-offs like this could've easily been avoided...
But America!!! F yea!!!
She says south eastern US then shows a map of Pennsylvania, first state of the north 😅😂