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Fall 2017 The Bur Available to Read!

Fall 2017 The Bur Available to Read!

The Fall 2017 issue of The Bur, the Virginia Chapter's newsletter, is now available for reading on-line.  Download a copy of this and all other issues at here, where you can also sign up to have future issues delivered automatically when they are released.

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Many Activities Planned in Central Virginia

Many Activities Planned in Central Virginia

Volunteer Speakers Sought The Central Virginia Restoration Branch is asking for help in spreading information about our program. A group of speakers is being formed in the Central Virginia area to speak to civic, environmental groups, schools, etc. Volunteers for this...

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Orchard Maintenance at the Roland Orchard

Orchard Maintenance at the Roland Orchard

The Roland Orchard was initially planted in the spring of 2008.  Additional trees were planted in April 2009. There were originally 385 trees: 15 were pure American; 15 were pure Chinese, 15 were 50-50 crosses between American and Chinese, and the remaining 320 were...

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Spring 2017 Newsletter Available!

Spring 2017 Newsletter Available!

The Spring 2017 issue of The Bur, the Virginia Chapter's newsletter, is now available for reading on-line.  Download a copy of this and all other issues at here, where you can also sign up to have future issues delivered automatically when they are released.

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Southwest Branch Active in 2017!

Southwest Branch Active in 2017!

Planning is underway for a large planting (over 4000 trees) in the Channels State Forest near Meadowview.  The planting will include both silvaculture test plots and reforestation.  In addition, the Branch is working with two high schools to coordinate educational...

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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.

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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll. Enter our 2026 Photo Contest from now until the end of December! #AmericanChestnut #ChestnutBlight #ForestEcology #NativeSpecies #ForestConservationImage attachmentImage attachment+1Image attachment

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American chestnuts produce separate male flowers and bisexual flowers on the same tree?! What a fascinating reproductive strategy for a species once dominant across eastern forests. 🌿

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I have had these on the farm for years

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From looking at the leaves that is NOT an American chestnut. The leaves do not have the good fishhook profile on the edges, and from what can see they look like Japanese chestnut leaves which have small feathery edges.

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Small Stem Assays involve inoculating young chestnut stems with the blight fungus and monitoring the resulting cankers, allowing researchers to assess how well different trees respond to infection.

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You don't find out if the tree is resistant until it matures. That could be a decade later.

I am always amazed how big you all can grow them in 1 year. That is how big my second year seed8 gs always are!

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