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Team Members

Team members and visitors in attendance at the NSF meeting at CAES on May 9th, 2008.

Chestnut Pictures

Chestnut flowers in bloom, taken at the Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts. Photo by Brad Smith, President of the Massachusetts Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.
American chestnuts still in the bur. Taken by Professor Joe Schibig of Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, TN.
Closeup of American chestnuts after shucking: shows the characteristic pubescence of the American species. Photo provided by Paul Sisco.
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Stem from a Chinese chestnut. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
Stem from an American chestnut. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
A surviving 85-foot American chestnut tree in Atkinson, Maine. Photo courtesy of Eric Evans of the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.
Chestnut leaves along Cove Mountain Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo provided by Paul Sisco
Photo provided by Fred Hebard
Tree at West Salem. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
American Chestnut seedlings being grown at Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Leaves are all pendant.
Chestnut seedlings being grown at Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. F2s from a cross of American and Chinese Chestnut on the left, Mahogany X Nanking Chinese chestnut cross on the right. The Chinese cross progeny have leaves that are staight out while the mixed progeny have a combination of straight out and pendant leaves.
Chestnut seedling in a pot. Shows the beautiful wine-color of new leaves. Photo provided by Paul Sisco
Robert's Cove. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
American chestnut tree photographed in Hampton, CT in 1905.* Tree was 83 ft tall, 27 inches dbh and 103 years old. Tree yielded 662 board feet of lumber.
Lethal Canker. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
Small OFT. Photo provided by Fred Hebard
Big Ugly. Photo provided by Fred Hebard

* Austin F. Hawes, 'Chestnut in Connecticut and the Improvement of the Woodlot.' Bulletin 154, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT, Sept. 1906, 41 pp.

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