<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv9149861334"><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2710" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> How do we share the raw data from a study so that other people can validate its veracity and others use it either for either a metadata analysis or for other research?</div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2711" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2766" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"> I have found a minimum of 2600 living American Chestnut trees in Berks County, Pennsylvania in the Port Clinton area and in the Hay Creek area south of Birdsboro. They are everything from this year's seedlings to "immortal trees". I have found several, by no means even a small fraction, of trees with flowers in this area. Age classes and amount of the chestnut blight on trees vary widely as resistance is evolving.</div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2808" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2809" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"> I am using a Nikon Coolpix P520 with a GPS function to record the data - i.e.. location of the trees. At the same time I am beginning to shoot specifically towards several papers and presentations.</div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2788" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2885" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Since this data will be controversial and the conclusions I am making are iconoclastic I want this data in an open public forum which anyone can access and evaluate.</div><div id="yiv9149861334yui_3_16_0_1_1435750944173_2886" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435751750605_2579" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"> As an aside, I am looking for areas in central and southeastern Pennsylvania which have not been logged since at least 1900 which may be refuges for remnant American Chestnut populations. The two I have found are reservoirs which have not been logged since at least the late 1800s.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435751750605_2580" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1435751750605_2581" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" dir="ltr"> Richard Gardner<br></div></div></div></body></html>