A Great Loss!

[Mink]

If you spend any time outdoors this should be interesting to you!

 

[Bucksnbows]

Only a short 100 years ago, 9 out of every 10 trees in NJ's highlands region would have been a chestnut.  Oaks were far behind, but # 2 in quantity.  We've lost the chestnuts, the elms, many of the hemlocks, and now we're losing all of our native ash trees as well.

[HamiltonR&G]

Nasty fungus!

[Rusty]

Only a short 100 years ago, 9 out of every 10 trees in NJ's highlands region would have been a chestnut.  Oaks were far behind, but # 2 in quantity.  We've lost the chestnuts, the elms, many of the hemlocks, and now we're losing all of our native ash trees as well.

 

 

Sad but true.  

[Bucksnbows]

Sad but true.  

 

I still find a few stump sprouts on Sparta Mountain from time to time each summer.  You can't miss those leaves!  My church in Gladstone is built out of chestnuts.  Every pew is chestnut and our pastor when she was new wanted to de-clutter the church basement (storage only) and toss many of the spare pews down there until I explained that the wood likely cannot be replaced.  Looking forward to getting better and better cultivars that are blight resistant and closer to our American chestnuts than the Chinese trees they had to out-cross to in order to get the disease resistance.  

[Kype]

Only a short 100 years ago, 9 out of every 10 trees in NJ's highlands region would have been a chestnut.  Oaks were far behind, but # 2 in quantity.  We've lost the chestnuts, the elms, many of the hemlocks, and now we're losing all of our native ash trees as well.

 

interesting. we have a giant chestnut. I'm constantly running over the nuts in and out of my driveway. I did not know chestnut trees were in danger. ash yes due to those beetles. I also see ash tree often choked to death in poison ivy vines. in the winter I will cut the vines in half to kill the vines.

[Rusty]

interesting. we have a giant chestnut. I'm constantly running over the nuts in and out of my driveway. I did not know chestnut trees were in danger. ash yes due to those beetles. I also see ash tree often choked to death in poison ivy vines. in the winter I will cut the vines in half to kill the vines.

 

That's a different species of chestnut.  The American chestnut is all but gone, although the stumps are still sprouting.   

[Rusty]

I still find a few stump sprouts on Sparta Mountain from time to time each summer.  

 

I have several that are still sprouting by me.  Every once in awhile one will get mature enough to produce a few nuts.   

[Bucksnbows]

interesting. we have a giant chestnut. I'm constantly running over the nuts in and out of my driveway. I did not know chestnut trees were in danger. ash yes due to those beetles. I also see ash tree often choked to death in poison ivy vines. in the winter I will cut the vines in half to kill the vines.

 

Kype, could it be a horse chestnut tree you have?  They are native and still fine.  

[Mink]

We have found some in Stokes that are large enough to produce a few nuts every year, but they are far and few between. I was lucky to receive a few of the 15/16th's Chestnuts that the Society  has been working on and I planted them on my property in Pa., only time will tell with these.

[Mink]

Kype, could it be a horse chestnut tree you have?  They are native and still fine.  

 

That or a Chinese/Japanese Chestnut, they are blight resistant!

[Rusty]

 I was lucky to receive a few of the 15/16th's Chestnuts that the Society  has been working on and I planted them on my property in Pa., only time will tell with these.

 

 

Very cool, we planted the Dunstan chestnuts on Sparta Mt WMA a few years back.  They are doing well.   

[nmc02]

Great video. Interesting

[Merkel]

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

[Kype]

oh ok, yeah i guess thats what i have. didnt know there was different species of chestnut trees. thanks for the info