HomeGrown 11/01/09 - Floyds Fork Naturalist & the American Chestnut

HomeGrown takes a good look at the future of Kentucky’s parks and woodlands this week in interviews with a naturalist who’s helping develop land for a park along Louisville’s Floyds Fork, and an author who wrote of the rise and fall of the American chestnut tree.  Naturalist Michael Gaige does the honors on the Floyds Fork project, and author Susan Frienkel talks of her book “The American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree.” Downloadable MP3Find out more:

• 21st Century Parks
• Read Bob Hill’s profile of Michael Gaige
• Floyds Fork Watershed
• Tom Vessels’ “Reading the Forested Landscape”
• Susan Freinkel homepage
• Chestnuts Take Root in Strip Mining Sites
• Testing blight resistance of American Chestnut seedlings