New orchard of chestnut trees begins on Cherokee territory
CLARISSA DONNELLY-DEROVEN, Asheville Citizen Times
May 23, 2021
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Imagine waking up 150 years ago, opening your window and looking out onto the Southern Appalachians. Within view would be any one of the billions of American chestnut trees that once covered the landscape. Places that are now considered coal country were chestnut country.
Today, not so much. The tree is considered functionally extinct, thanks to a fungus imported in on a tree from Japan in the late 1800s. The airborne fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, flings its spores onto the American chestnut until its bark develops sickly looking blisters that soon spread throughout its body, destroying the tree’s ability to grow tall enough to reproduce.
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In due course, a native prairie north of Wilmington
By Gary Huffenberger - ghuffenberger@wnewsj.com
Cardinal Land Conservancy Executive Director Andy Dickerson, pictured, talks about what the future holds for Todd’s Fork Preserve. In the background is a volunteer’s tractor ready to pull a native grass seed drill loaned to Cardinal by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife at Fallsville.
Gary Huffenberger | News Journal
Gary Huffenberger | News Journal
UNION TOWNSHIP This past weekend a 35-acre field was fully planted with native prairie seed and come next year and the year after, the 4-to-8 feet tall Big Bluestem bunchgrass, wildflowers, and forbs with their showy flowers are expected to really kick in.
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USDA may allow genetically modified trees to be released into the wild
“Our natural forests that support wildlife and the economic sovereignty of rural communities will rapidly be replaced with tree plantations for wood pellets, paper and more, leaving environmental and climate injustice in their wake.”
On August 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a petition by researchers at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) seeking federal approval to release their genetically engineered (GE) Darling 58 (D58) American chestnut tree into U.S. forests. Researchers claim the transgenic D58 tree will resist the fungal blight that, coupled with rampant overlogging, decimated the American chestnut population in the early 20th century. In fact, the GE American chestnut is a Trojan horse meant to open the doors to commercial GE trees designed for industrial plantations.
The American Chestnut Returns to Stamford Written by Lizzy Zawy Public Relations
The American Chestnut Returns to Stamford
Stamford Land Trust and the American Chestnut Foundation plant chestnut trees
On Friday, May 14th, the Stamford Land Conservation Trust (“SLCT”) will plant chestnut seedlings in partnership with The American Chestnut Foundation. The Stamford Land Conservation Trust and the Connecticut Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation are working together to try and restore American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) to Connecticut s forests. Chestnuts used to comprise approximately 25-40% of the forests in CT but a foreign fungal blight brought them to the brink of extinction.