A Baltimore County effort to supply food banks and homeless shelters with produce grown at a Cockeysville agriculture center has wasted more than $1 million and yielded a fraction of the expected food, according to a report from the Baltimore County Office of the Inspector General.
Cincinnati Magazine
January 22, 2021
His branches ruffle in the light breeze under a brilliant sun, a lone sentry in a clearing surrounded by the traditional guardians of Ohio’s forests. The hemlocks, maples, white ash, and sycamores seem to watch over him, giving the youngster the space and energy to grow. And he has.
Illustration by Andrew Davison
At age 3, he’s already more than 12 feet tall, and his distinctive foliage suggests he is healthy and ready to reign as the King of Hocking Hills. Instead, he’ll likely wither and die within the next 10 years.
As pioneers poured over the Allegheny Mountains in the 1780s and began settling eastern Ohio, they passed under the canopy of millions of American chestnut trees. We would be awestruck by what they saw: mammoth brownish-gray columns of bark towering 100 feet in the air, the first branches not poking out until halfway up to heaven before splaying their splendor in a crown of green sawtooth leaves.
From staff reports
SERVICE PROJECT â West Liberty University students Jaden Rusnak of Steubenville and Jason Ake of Martins Ferry plant trees on campus as a service requirement of biology class. (Contributed photo)
WEST LIBERTY West Liberty University campus beautification got a boost this fall as 40 trees were added to the landscape.
“In total we planted about 40 trees, including American chestnuts, cottonwood, red maples, willow, bald cypress redbuds, Kentucky coffee trees, Catalpa, river birch, as well as several other species. These trees should help stabilize the soils, improve wildlife habitat, and also increase the aesthetic beauty of campus,” explained James Wood, an assistant professor of biology at the university.
Using science to bring back iconic American chestnut trees
Using science to bring back iconic American chestnut trees
By Michele S. Byers
“Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose …” By the time those famous lyrics were penned in 1945, most of the magnificent American chestnut forests in the eastern United States were gone, the victims of a blight that would eventually kill some four billion trees.
In today’s terms, it would be a pandemic … one far more deadly to American chestnuts than COVID-19 to humans.
More than a century after the majority of American chestnut trees were wiped out, those who love the iconic species are hoping modern science and technology – including genetic engineering and biological controls – will bring them back.
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