Fort Detrick Orchard
Ft Detrick Army Base, Frederick, Frederick Co.
Directions:
This orchard is in “Area B”, which requires a badge for access. Starting at Rt 15 in Frederick, go west on Rosemont Avenue for 0.66 miles to a left turn on Montevue Lane. Take Montevue for 0.5 miles to a right turn into Area B. Turn right on the road that forms a loop around Area B. The orchard will be on your right, about a mile from the entrance.
Contacts:
James Becker – steward
Lynn Hoch – Environment manager, Ft Detrick
Plantings:
Note: The recent expansion increased the area by 50% to 1 and 1/2 acres
Location:
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They can bring back a dead wolf from hundreds of years ago but they won’t bring back something useful like the American chestnut
If it's extinct it not possible to bring back
Thank NYC, destroyed not only the tree, but a way of life 😢
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Join us on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat.
Special guests Duane McKenna and Michael Charles will discuss beetle evolution and the rediscovery of a lost species, the greater chestnut weevil.
Visit tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-beetle-evolution-greater-chestnut-weevil/ to learn more and register.
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Why don't they make a weevil that can't have babies? And put them in the wild? So it'll past it to overs so they'll die out!!!