Revisiting a very beautiful, 114-foot-tall American chestnut tree that grows in Hebron
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The blooms of the American chestnut tree in Hebron peak out from other foliage. Nestled in the woods, the largest known American chestnut tree in Maine stands proudly on Ann Siekman and Roger Crockett’s property.
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HEBRON This summer, an American chestnut tree in Hebron has left many in wonder, thinking about the tree’s significance.
Located on Ann Siekman and Roger Crockett’s property on Back Street, the tree, which has been in full glorious bloom, has often turned heads not only because it is “very beautiful,” Siekman said, but because of its size. It’s considered to be the biggest in Maine and one of the biggest in the country.
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LANSING – Along Sycamore Creek, south of Potter Park Zoo, stands a white willow so massive that it s on the National Register of Champion Trees.
With a girth of 389 inches, the whopper willow dwarfs some of the other impressive old trees growing across the region, including a silver maple in Grand Ledge that s nearly 250 inches around and a 111-foot-tall eastern cottonwood in Lansing.
Both are also in the state Big Tree Register maintained by the Michigan Botanical Club, and the Big Tree Hunt contest is one way that scientists find trees like these. There s a lot of scientific value in knowing where these trees are located, said Ashley Laux, project forester for ReLeaf Michigan, an Ann Arbor-based nonprofit that works with communities to plant more trees. They can then be further studied for whether they have some sort of disease resistance or a certain type of genetic makeup that make them more resilient.
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