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Annual Meeting of the American Chestnut Foundation at LWC By Barbara Armitage More than 30 members of the American Chestnut Foundation, the Adair County Garden Club and just plain ol tree lovers from all over the state of Kentucky braved the scorching summer sun and oppressivehumidity for a chance to visit the largest surviving American Chestnut Tree in Kentucky, located on a private farmin Adair County. Its days like this that make me re-think my decision to make Kentucky my home - I wonder - is it possible to actually drown in humidity? Then I get a chance to look out over the rolling hills and I know why I chose to live here said Barbara Armitage of the ACGC. Adair County has some of our countries most beautiful landscape. This towering tree is one of the few remaining American Chestnut trees left after the blight that nearly destroyed them in the early part of the 1900's. Growing within "spittin distance" of my home at Tuckers Station I wonder if it could have been the seedling-child of the Chestnut tree that was harvested just over the hill that would become the floor of this very room I write in.The tree reminds me of my great grandfather not much to look at and a bit beat up from some pretty rough living but just to plain old stubborn to die. Although afflicted with the blight its self it has defied the odds and remained relatively healthy for nearly 100 years. Scores of dedicated people from The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), the Forest Service and countless volunteers work tirelessly each year searching out trees like this one - hand pollinating them and then collecting the precious nuts to be carefully grown in nurseries to be cross pollinated with the blight resistant Chinese Chestnut. All in the hope of restoring what once were great proud forests of American Chestnuts. Time can be of an essence - TACF hopes to locate just five to ten "Mother Trees" each year in Kentucky. Each of these trees offer an important opportunity to develop a blight resistant tree by contributing valuable genetic diversity to the breeding effort. You can help reverse what has been called one of the most devastating events in nature by identifying potential Mother trees. It can be difficult to distinguish between members of the Chestnut Tree family. The American chestnut has long canoe shaped leaves with a prominent lance-shaped tip, with a coarse, forward hooked tooth at the edge of the leaf. The leaf is dull or "matte" rather than shiny or waxy in texture. For more information on the Kentucky Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation visit KY Chestnut.org or contact the Adair County garden Club or call Barbara Armitage at (270) 250-2979. The Adair County Garden Club is making a difference in Adair County. This story was posted on 2009-06-28 01:17:48
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