At 09:06 PM 6/6/02 -0400, you wrote: > >The elm is hanging on a bit, but I'm hoping the American Chestnut can be >brought back. >http://www.acf.org/ > Dan and list: Research is ongoing at SUNY ESF in the hopes of creating a strain of American Chestnut that will be disease resistant. See http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/ Dr Powell is apparently also working on the American Elm: http://www.esf.edu/efb/powell/research.html#elm There was an article on the Syracuse Post-Standard not long ago about the work at ESF. It may be archived at syracuse.com, but I haven't checked. regards, Greg Greg Ketcham webmaster, "Drums Along The Mohawk: the American Revolution on the New York Frontier" http://www.nyhistory.net/~drums