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8:30 pm

“The American Chestnut was once the most important tree in the forest from Maine to Georgia.  Mature Trees averaged five feet in diameter and one hundred feet tall.  The chestnut blight struck in 1904 and by 1950 some four hundred million acres of eastern forest were destroyed by the blight.”  In 1983, The American Chestnut Foundation was founded to provide a research vehicle to combat the blight.  Today, there are 200 breeding orchards, 500 “mother trees” and 1,000 seed orchards, which have yielded a limited number of highly blight resistant trees.  Mike Shanshala from the PA Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation will be teaching about the blight, the demise of the chestnut, current research and the tree’s hope for the future.

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