Most American chestnuts die before they get to that size.

One of the things we are increasingly concerned with is the status of trees in town and the way old mature trees that provide shade to the town are dying and not being replaced.

There are a lot of species out there we didn’t get anything on. We look at it kind of as an ongoing process. We will be doing this again.

It is the biggest of all the trees we got.

We went out and measured ourselves.