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Compass is a quarterly publication of the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station (SRS). As part of the Nation's largest forestry research organization -- USDA Forest Service Research and Development -- SRS serves 13 Southern States and beyond. The Station's 130 scienists work in more than 20 units located across the region at Federal laboratories, universites, and experimental forests.



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Issue 11

Cherokee Uses of Chestnut

Tea of year-old leaves for heart trouble; leaves from young sprouts cure old sores; cold bark tea with buckeye to stop bleeding after birth; apply warmed galls to make infant’s navel recede; boil leaves with mullein and brown sugar for cough syrup; dip leaves in hot water and put on sores; tea for typhoid; for stomach; bark makes brown dye; firewood (pops badly); lumber (wormy or good); rails for fences; acid wood; coffee substitute (parched).

From: Hamel, P.B.; Chiltoskey, M.U. 1975. Cherokee plants and their uses, a 400 year history. Sylva, NC: Herald Publishing Co. 65 p.





One type of wildland-urban interface is the isolated interface, where second homes are scattered across remote areas.
Gathering Chestnuts, painting by Ernest Smith (1907–75), a Tonawanda Seneca artist and craftsman. (From the collections of the Rochester Museum & Science Center, Rochester, NY)