Where were the trees near Traverse? Do you recall the road or area?
-I know of a few large trees in nearby southeastern Benzie County.

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American_Chestnut_Trees_and_Hybrids@yahoogroups.com, "michaeljtone"
<michaeljtone@...> wrote:
>
> I am wondering who would be interested in knowing about 2 mature
> American Chestnut Trees in northern Michigan near the Traverse
City
> area - if you don't know of them already.
> I saw these trees about 12 years ago. At that time it appeared
that the
> blight was affecting one of the tree's lower limb. These were
clear
> single trunk trees that had a diameter of about 4 ft at the chest.
If I
> remember correctly. They were large tall timber type trees. I also
have
> knowledge of a tree in the Detroit suburbs that I saw that is more
of
> a Globe shaped tree with large low growing limbs. This tree was/is
> about 40 - 50 ft tall and had a large trunk.
>
> I have a about 500 chestnuts (asiatic) and 100 Dunstan trees on my
> property in southern michigan that are 10-15 years old and range
in
> height of 8-15 ft. tall and are producing great nuts.
>
> If anyone is interested to follow up on this info my email is
> MikeJtone@..., my name is Mike
>