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Started by Onslow, February 23, 2019, 14:00:50 PM

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Woolly Bugger

#30
Give this a listen..

https://www.vpr.org/post/genetic-engineering-way-restore-american-chestnut-tree#stream/0
 

QuoteThe once-ubiquitous American chestnut tree is now functionally extinct, nearly erased from the landscape by a blight that killed roughly 3 billion trees over 50 years. Now a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the tree is seeking federal approval to release a genetically engineered blight-resistant chestnut into the wild. But is a genetically engineered tree the right way to restore a virtually extinct species?

The blight, an Asian fungus that girdles chestnut trees and eventually kills them, came to North America in around the 1900s. Years of federal and local forestry efforts failed to revive the species. The nonprofit American Chestnut Foundation was formed in the 1980s to continue that work and restore the trees to the wild.

The ACF has bred hybrid trees resistant to the blight, but it's also pursuing a genetically-modified tree that combines genes from wheat and cauliflower into a tree resistant to the fungus. Much of that research is being done at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.

Fitzsimmons will also discuss the March resignation by two members of the Massachusetts/Rhode Island ACF in protest to the foundation's plans to plant geneticially modified trees and opposition to agrochemical and biotech companies Monsanto and ArborGen being involved in the project.
Broadcast live on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Sara Fitzsimmons, ACF director of restoration and a researcher at Penn State University, joins Vermont Edition to explain chestnut restoration efforts and how the foundation is working toward federal approval to plant its genetically modified chestnut trees in the wild to restore the species.
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

#31
100 Million Trees planted by 2022

https://www.arborday.org/media/pressreleases/pressrelease.cfm?id=452

To give you a sense for the wide variety of trees we're planting through Time for Trees, here's a snapshot of species we plan to use in 2019:
Longleaf pine, Jack pine, loblolly pine, red pine, Jeffrey pine, white pine, sugar pine, ponderosa pine, white oak, bur oak, red oak, American chestnut, Douglas fir, sweetgum, hickory, bald cypress, western larch, and incense cedar

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/16/100-million-tree-planting-initiative-launched-by-arbor-day-foundation/

if you have a Microsoft / bing rewards account you can donate points and microsoft will match!

I just donated 10,000 20,000 points! That's 20 Trees!

https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Beetle

I just acquired 4 chestnuts from the Bryants in Nelson County.    They are available at Lovingston Farm Supply right there on 29.

https://virginiachestnuts.com/

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Woolly Bugger

Honor Society students plant trees at RSMS

QuoteBryan Lightner, a member of the Cecil County Watershed Stewards, led the planting project again this year. He said the American Chestnut Foundation is collecting data on the four species planted: Sugarloaf, WMREC, Carver, and Scrivener.

https://www.cecildaily.com/news/local_news/honor-society-students-plant-trees-at-rsms/article_bda39d29-294b-5c3a-95ab-f06536fc236d.html
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

Will American chestnut trees stage a comeback near Bethlehem's reservoirs?


QuoteThe Bethlehem Authority commemorated Earth Day on Monday by planting hundreds of seedlings aimed at bringing back the mighty chestnut trees that once dominated the canopy of that Carbon County forest surrounding the city's water supply.
The planting includes 400 chestnut seedlings and 600 red and white oak on a 2.5-acre patch near Wild Creek Reservoir. The mixed planting aims to mimic the native forest composition that once grew there before a blight decimated chestnut trees a century ago. Over the next several years, the authority will be tracking the seedlings for survival and using the oak species as a control group to learn what the soil will support.


https://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/mc-nws-bethlehem-chestnut-tree-planting-20190422-a5p73giblfgwfa4qkslphav6uy-story.html
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Onslow

Quote from: Woolly Bugger on April 30, 2019, 09:28:09 AMWhat it Takes to Bring Back the Near Mythical American Chestnut Trees | USDA

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-bring-back-near-mythical-american-chestnut-trees


Whenever I see that pic, I get watery-eyed.  The civil war and the Chestnut blight are two of the great American tragedies.

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

Hybridization, I'm not sure how I feel about the effort when it comes to the American Chestnut.  On the surface I see it as a fractional fix – perhaps a quicker perceived solution than other remedies like intercrossing of 100% American Chestnuts.   There are all-American blight resistant trees out there, of substantial size and bearing fruit.   So, is hybridization with Asian stock truly saving/restoring the American Chestnut?
"Enjoy every sandwich."  Warren Zevon

Woolly Bugger

QuotePublic lands biologist Josh Kelly warned last Wednesday that conservation efforts must start now to save North America's ash trees before they face a fate similar to the American Chestnut tree and disappear from forest landscapes.
Kelly, with local environmental group MountainTrue, gave his presentation, "Save Pisgah's Ashes," in the library's Rogow Room. The presentation was organized by the library in partnership with MountainTrue and the Pisgah Conservancy.
Specifically, the presentation highlighted the dangers infestations of emerald ash borer beetles (EAB) present to woodlands. Kelly emphasized there is still time to save native populations of white, green and Biltmore ash, and that while treatment can be expensive, especially with big trees, removal is even more so.
https://www.transylvaniatimes.com/story/2019/06/10/outdoors/working-to-save-pisgahs-ash-trees/41035.html
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

A legendary Ozark chestnut tree, thought extinct, is rediscover

The chinquapin was supposed to have been wiped out by blight. Now one determined Missouri naturalist is hand-pollinating trees in secret groves to bring it back.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/saving-chestnut-trees-ozarks/

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

DRIFTS

Quote from: Woolly Bugger on June 26, 2019, 11:28:48 AMA legendary Ozark chestnut tree, thought extinct, is rediscover

The chinquapin was supposed to have been wiped out by blight. Now one determined Missouri naturalist is hand-pollinating trees in secret groves to bring it back.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/saving-chestnut-trees-ozarks/


I remember steeping on their husk when I was young and running wild in the woods...Ouch!
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Woolly Bugger

Emerald ash borer not alone in putting tree species at risk

Threatening remnant woodlands these days are invasives that attack specific species. Almost all of the threats originate from movement of people and commodities from regions where nature has developed nemeses for potentially devastating pests to lands where no defenses exist.
The consequences have all but eliminated the American chestnut and devastated the American elm, important forest species felled by imported fungi. Ash trees currently are succumbing by the millions to the emerald ash borer, whose presence has been traced to crates from Asia delivered to Detroit.
There are more, not-so-heralded invaders, including:

• The Asian longhorn beetle
• Beech leaf disease
• The hemlock woolly adelgid
• Thousand cankers disease

https://www.dispatch.com/sports/20190629/outdoors--emerald-ash-borer-not-alone-in-putting-tree-species-at-risk
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Woolly Bugger

Calculation Shows We Could Add a U.S.-Sized Forest to the Planet to Fight Climate Change

https://apple.news/AgcqGGVDsRbep2QOqJw8n-Q
ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Mudwall Gatewood 3.0

Quote from: Woolly Bugger on July 04, 2019, 14:41:28 PMCalculation Shows We Could Add a U.S.-Sized Forest to the Planet to Fight Climate Change

https://apple.news/AgcqGGVDsRbep2QOqJw8n-Q


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