A real life, healthy American Chestnut is growing in our sugarbush. I've been monitoring it over the years, and last year it had a TON of chestnuts that were all empty. Unfortunately it needs another tree to pollinate. I dont see any cankers on it, so hopefully it has quite a few more years left. It's about 8-10" dbh, so maybe it grows into a small sawlog before it succumbs.

When it dies it will be treasured, and will be sawn up/ split into fence posts/ cut into firewood

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