Chestnut Orchard Volunteers Recog at Spirit of NH Volunteer Awards

摘要

In 2018, the first round of chestnut seeds, from three different breeding lines, was planted at the Tom Rush Forest in Deer-ing, N.H., as part of a project to revive the struggling trees. For the past two years, a group of about ten volunteers has worked to keep the nearly 600 chestnut trees healthy and thriving. Although the work, which includes a lot of weeding, watering, and mowing, is not the most glamorous, it is the group's commitment that makes their job all the more impressive. "It's pretty easy to get a lot of people to come out for something fun like planting chestnuts," Forest Society field forester Gabe Roxby says, "but those who take on the drudgery of ongoing maintenance work are the real heroes. The group's work is vitally important to the success of growing resilient chestnut trees, and the Forest Society could not do it without them."