Magnitude of American Chestnut Restoration an the Roles of TACF Chapters Over the Next 40+ Years

[@JohnMartin-ze8cf]

The absolute best TACF video so far.....Thanks for what you are doing.

[@panjchapteroftacf6937]

Wow, thanks!

[@searchingfor6thgear44]

Great video. Thank you.

[@panjchapteroftacf6937]

Glad you liked it!

[@k6tmk6]

Such an informative video. I finally understand the math of the timeline. Thanks and I want to help!

[@panjchapteroftacf6937]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dinosworkinonit3563]

I have 4 really healthy Chestnut trees. They produce an abundance of chestnuts and there have been seedlings sprout up around the property from squirrels burying them. I have transplanted 4 saplings into the woods behind the house and they are doing great.

[@patrickgrippo2897]

I would really like to get some chestnut seedlings for 18.5 privately owned and 400 acres of Alameda park(selected sites,pending County Commissioner's approval in Butler County,Pa.

[@dinosworkinonit3563]

@@patrickgrippo2897 Right now there are 5-6 saplings about 4-5 feet tall in the yard you are welcome to. Chestnuts fall in late summer early fall and they don't last long with all the wildlife but you are welcome to them. Im in Allegheny county, Elizabeth, PA. across the Mon river from the Clairton Mill.

[@patrickgrippo2897]

Thank you for your very generous offer of the castanea dentatis saplings, chestnuts.this spring we had literally 100s of red oak d whkge oak seedlingsgrowing out of acorns,here if you should need some.We will have to communiCatve further,as spring approach es In 1955,virgin oaks were cut here many of which had 350eings onthe stumps,second ,partial logging in2014.

[@dinosworkinonit3563]

@@patrickgrippo2897 No problem.

[@buildingwithtrees2258]

Spooner WI, washburn county had one. But they cut it down to expand a dairy queen parking lot. It was huge and old.

[@ref6122]

Wow.I would gladly transplant in Ct. if seedlings were available

[@gfriedman99]

Me too

[@timliggett5088]

Would love to try some genetically altered trees seedling's here on my farm in northern Arkansas

[@RovingPunster]

N00b question out of the blue: i can see the value of planting pre-grown seedlings, due to their high per plant success rate (60% ?), but youre limited by the need for volunteers and number of available seedlings and physical access to specific zones. As a supplemental approach, albeit with a vastly lower success rate that could be offset with vastly larger numbers - what about low density air drops of pre-sprouted nuts ... esp over areas damaged by fire ? Kinda like crop dusting, only you thinly scatter nuts over forests instead of pesticide. Seems like it could do some good, even if the success rate per nut is under 1%. Just thinking aloud.

[@gfriedman99]

Very interesting concept. I think it has merit and at the very least would be worth a trial run in order to collect some data on viability.

[@RovingPunster]

@@gfriedman99 So do I, but upon further reflection I think I can guess why it probably wont happen soon ... nuts of the new resistant strains are likely still in short supply, and are surely waaaaay too valuable at the moment to just airdrop en mass into forests instead of into the hands of eager paying customers. Given the fairly high prices for nuts of older non-resistant strains being sold mail order as food, consider how much higher the prices for nuts/saplings of newer strains must be. Kinda hard to just throw away money that grows on trees. Oh well - no quick solution there.

[@bobrenner1624]

I live in Cincinnati , Ohio - Anderson Township What kind of chestnut trees are planted? Withrow Nature purserve / Is there any planted ?

[@mynameisnotcory]

Id love to see how they do in north texas, i hear they can grow here

[@dougniergarth236]

Is climate change going to change the Hardiness Zones around enough so that I can plant some Chestnuts around me in Northern Michigan? I live in a zone around 5a & 5b.

[@Jenna08848]

I have 9 american chestnuts that are doing well in my forest land in Potter County

[@uncletom1986]

Send me a few I will plant down here in Ms

[@darwinmerdes2941]

USDA "Free the Tree" We need deregulation and volunteerism!

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