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The local area is home to a relatively large number of American chestnut trees, planted by pioneers from New York and Pennsylvania who settled in western Michigan.
The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American oak.
The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1. 5-3 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly swamp chestnut oak,
* American species These include Castanea dentata ( American chestnut-Eastern states ), Castanea pumila ( American-or Allegheny chinkapin, also known as " dwarf chestnut "-Eastern states ), Castanea alnifolia ( Southern states ), Castanea ashei ( Southern states ), Castanea floridana ( Southern states ) and Castanea paupispina ( Southern states ).
Other trees commonly mistaken for the chestnut tree are the chestnut oak ( Quercus prinus ) and the American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ).
Chestnut trees are of moderate growth rate ( for the Chinese chestnut tree ) to fast-growing for American and European species.
Its bark is smooth when young, of a vinous maroon or red-brown colour for the American chestnut, grey for the European chestnut.
Aboriginal Americans were eating the American chestnut species, mainly Castanea dentata and some others, long before European immigrants introduced their stock to America, and before the arrival of chestnut blight.
But soon after that, the American chestnuts were nearly wiped out by chestnut blight.
Within 40 years, the near-four billion-strong American chestnut population in North America was devastated ; only a few clumps of trees remained in California and the Pacific Northwest.
Due to disease, American chestnut wood almost disappeared from the market for decades, although quantities can still be obtained as reclaimed lumber.
This is just enough to preserve the genetic material used to engineer an American chestnut tree with the minimal necessary genetic input from any of the disease-immune Asiatic species.
This is because it and its associates ( the American Chestnut Cooperators ' Foundation and many others from education, research and industry sectors contributing to the program ) are at the last stages of developing a variety that is as close as possible to the lost American chestnut, while having incorporated the blight-resistant gene of the Asiatic species.
Early in the 20th century, chestnut blight destroyed about four billion American chestnut trees, and reduced the most important tree throughout the East Coast to an insignificant presence.
The American chinkapins are also very susceptible to chestnut blight.
The resistant species ( particularly Japanese and Chinese chestnut, but also Seguin's chestnut and Henry's chestnut ) have been used in breeding programs in the U. S. to create hybrids with the American chestnut that are also disease-resistant.

American and is
`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.
Now I wish to enter the American market, where the competition is very strong.
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Obviously there has been no agreement on what American conservatism is, or rather, what it should be.
Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
The picture is the more treacherous when it misrepresents the facts of American life.
The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.
Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.
Mr. Stavropoulos is the U.N. legal chief and a very good man, but he is not fully versed on some technical points of American law ''.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.
Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

American and prolific
In Victorian times the epigram couplet was often used by the prolific American poet Emily Dickinson.
Jeffrey Meyers, a prolific American biographer, was first to take advantage of this and published a book in 2001 that investigated the darker side of Orwell and questioned his saintly image.
* Sid Sackson was a prolific American game designer.
Paula Wolfert, prolific American author of 9 cookbooks ( 2 on Moroccan cuisine ), helped enable Moroccan-Americans to enjoy their native cuisine with ease.
* Thomas A. Sebeok ( 1920 – 2001 ), a student of Charles W. Morris, was a prolific and wide-ranging American semiotician.
** Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( b. 1892 )
* September 11 – Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer ( original voice of Goofy ) ( d. 1967 )
Because of its prolific use during this period, the American Dialect Society voted " weapons of mass destruction " ( and its abbreviation, " WMD ") the word of the year in 2002, and in 2003 Lake Superior State University added WMD to its list of terms banished for " Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness ".
Charles Beaumont ( January 2, 1929 – February 21, 1967 ) was a prolific American author of speculative fiction, including short stories in the horror and science fiction subgenres.
Horatio Alger, Jr. ( January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899 ) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.
Babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League.
A prominent American artist in the jungle scene, AK1200 has been credited for helping to bring jungle and drum and bass to the forefront in the United States, due to his reputation for impressive live performances and prolific remixes, as well as for playing for free to help promote the spread of the style.
He is considered to be one of the most prolific newspaper journalists in American history, working at the newspaper for 56 years.
Davis, a prolific writer of letters to medical societies, purported to be a retired US Army surgeon living in Caughnawaga, Quebec ( now called Kahnawake ), author of a controversial paper on the obstetrical habits of Native American tribes which was suppressed and unpublished.
Raymond Loewy was a prolific American designer who is responsible for the Royal Dutch Shell corporate logo, the original BP logo ( in use until 2000 ), the PRR S1 steam locomotive, the Studebaker Starlight ( including the later iconic bulletnose ), as well as Schick electric razors, Electrolux refrigerators, short-wave radios, Le Creuset French ovens, and a complete line of modern furniture, among many other items.
* The gradual loss of most of the American companies which were at one time, iconic and prolific producers of inexpensive children's television shows.
* April 21 — Charles Beecher, American composer, minister and prolific writer ( born 1815 )
Thigpen had a long and prolific theater career, and appeared in numerous musicals including Godspell, The Night That Made America Famous, The Magic Show, Working, Tintypes and An American Daughter ( for which she won her Tony Award for her portrayal of Dr. Judith Kaufman in 1997 ).
As editor of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research between 1931 and 1968, Albright exercised deep influence over both biblical scholarship and Palestinian archaeology, an influence further extended by his prolific writing and publishing ( over 1, 100 books and articles ).
David Merrick ( November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000 ) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.
Ralph Adams Cram, FAIA ( December 16, 1863 – September 22, 1942 ) was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic style.
Big Bill Broonzy ( June 26, 1903 – August 15, 1958 ) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Kip Stephen Thorne ( born June 1, 1940 ) is an American theoretical physicist, known for his prolific contributions in gravitation physics and astrophysics and for having trained a generation of scientists.
Ellen Gould White ( born Harmon ) ( November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915 ) was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer.

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