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Wow. Thanks for the detailed reply. It’s definitely trickier than it looks. I’d love to drop the front stem toward the camera, but I have a chestnut and cherry trees in the proximity there too. That old dug well isn’t used (although I probably should use it for watering purposes) so I don’t mind dropping it anywhere in that direction. I’d just prefer to drop it where there’s a bunch of cut up logs and brush already. The clump river birch is safe, but my eyeballs say the corner of the run would be close with the crown of the tree. The image should have “objects are closer than they appear” watermarked on the bottom of it.

So I wanna drop this dead tree to the right despite a slight lean to the left (south). Any recommendations on how to go about this? Cut a wedge on the right first and then back cut? Do a bit of a back cut first, add felling wedges, cut a small wedge on right, and then continue with the back cut and pounding in the wedges? Cut that remaining stump off first and then do my cuts lower below the two trunk seam? I don’t want to risk crushing my newly planted trees on the left side. It’s been dead for a few years too so I’m not sure if part of the center is hollow.

One of my pure american chestnut saplings struggling to survive. There's a spot where it appears the bark is ripping away. I'm not sure if it's blight related, but I may wrap it in a mud pack just to be safe. It looks healthy otherwise.

Although this may be worse...frozen at CON on 5/26. CON,1967-05-26 12:00,KCON 261200Z 01010KT 10SM -RA OVC/// 05/01 A//// RMK SLP119 P0005 T00500011 CON,1967-05-26 15:00,KCON 261500Z 01012KT 8SM -RA OVC/// 05/02 A//// RMK SLP126 P0005 T00500017 CON,1967-05-26 18:00,KCON 261800Z 35011KT 5SM -RAPL OVC/// 05/02 A//// RMK SLP132 P0005 T00500017 CON,1967-05-26 21:00,KCON 262100Z 36010KT 10SM -RA SCT/// OVC/// 06/03 A//// RMK SLP139 P0001 T00610028

0.82" +RA and 43F This has to be in the top 3 all time for worst afternoons for this time of year.

If anyone wants a rare birch look for a betula uber (Virginia round leaf). That is probably the most endangered tree in the nation...it’s only native to Smyth county in VA.

Yeah...gotta keep it away from the septic, well, foundation, etc. But I have one out back and wish I had another to suck up all of the excessive moisture I get out there. Those broken branches propagate easily too. I have a dozen of them in a bucket of water right now with roots shooting out of them.

Good to know...thanks for that. I'd been afraid to plant it too close to my run for fear of that.

If you want to wait a year or two, SUNY ESF is waiting for government approval of their slightly gene edited american chestnut. I'm on the waiting list with them and I'm growing mother trees to pollinate with them. Only 2 of the 40,000 genes have been edited with these trees...1 gives the tree blight resistance and the other is a marker for the blight resistance gene. https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/ If they get government approval they will be available to the public and reintroduced into the forests to hopefully fill back in across the eastern US. Joining the NY chapter of the american chestnut foundation would probably get you some if/when they're available. I have a coupe of hickories that I planted out back, but those take awhile to grow and don't do well with transplanting since they have a monster tap root. I laso planted a yellow birch and a tulip poplar, but the tulip is another fast growing tree that drops a lot of branches over its lifetime. I got a lot of my native trees from here. They're about 3hrs form you, but they ship smaller trees. Maybe this list will give you some ideas. https://www.gonativetrees.com/PriceList.pdf This catalog from a place local to me has a bunch of different maple varieties with descriptions which may be of some help. http://www.brochunursery.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Brochu-Nursery-2019-Catalog.pdf

If you want a fast growing maple I think silver maples tend to grow like a weed.

Rich Massholes coming up to the Lake to their lake homes.

Gilford Lowes at it again this year with the $1500 ~100 gal japanese maples.

Oaks are fine here. Big ol’ leaves.

The honeylocusts and local huge catalpa downtown seems really slow to leaf out this year. It still looks like stick season on those trees although I did see some signs of buds breaking on them last night.

Bring in a foot of fertile soil and plant a garden.

Hell of a boundary up in Coos this afternoon. HIE up to 73F while the Pittsburgh stations are U40s.

Holy pollen. Sneeze city this morning. Must be the white pines?

Could be worse.

I need to do my first mow ASAP...getting a little long in spots.

What are the bushes with the pink flowers? The lawn looks great although my chickens would hate it.

I love bees, but yeah...no thanks. Is that near the house or walkways?

The same thing that happened to 4 billion of them a century ago. The wet, mank spring didn't help. I planted them late last summer so they've been battling a lot of moisture. The root systems are pretty tough though...they'll probably throw up new growth later in the warm season.

Most trees are beginning to leaf out. The maples and oaks are in the very early stages, but the beech, willow, aspen, and birch are well ahead. Of my 5 chestnuts, only 1 looks healthy. Of the 4 shaky ones, 1 is definitely dead, 2 show some life to them but the buds aren't swelling, and 1 is leafing out but has a canker around half of the stem which will probably choke off the upper portion of the sapling at some point. Definitely need to mow, but everything is waterlogged.

Try Craigslist?