A big thank you to my Facebook friend, Charles Cotton, for alerting me to this exciting news! I was quite surprised to learn that researchers go around flying over forests looking for things like this. Or maybe more so that they were able to identify this from the air.
Anyway, it might be time for Larry Fox and his DPW crews to have some new signs made for all of our major roads that proclaim: "Welcome to Lovell, Home of the Tallest Chestnut Tree".
Here's the story from Saturday's Bangor Daily News: