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Experimental trials at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Massachusetts Chestnut blight affecting a young American chestnut. The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is a nonprofit American organization dedicated to breeding a blight-resistant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) tree and to the reintroduction of this tree to the forests of the Eastern United States.
American chestnuts (1.2 ha / 3 acres) - Since 1992 when a 3-acre (12,000 m 2) grove of rare American chestnut trees was discovered at the arboretum, Westchester County has been working with The American Chestnut Foundation to develop a disease-resistant form of this tree.
William Powell (died November 12, 2023) was an American biologist. He was a professor of biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry from 1983 until 2022. [1] In 1989, he founded the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project with fellow ESF professor Charles Maynard.
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The American Chestnut Foundation was also only recently told about the tree's existence. [134] Members of the Kentucky chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation have been pollinating a tree found on a farm in Adair County, and a specimen found on Henderson Ridge in Elliott County. The Adair County tree is over one hundred years old. [135] [136]
While The American Chestnut Foundation discontinued support of development of the Darling 58 cultivar in December 2023, in part due to the mistaken use of Darling 54 in all completed field trials, [8] The American Chestnut Research & Restoration Program, who originated the tree, continues its development. The ACRRP has decided to build on top ...
Large surviving American chestnut in its natural range. The American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation (ACCF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, scientific, and educational foundation that was organized in 1986 and with the help of research and volunteers from Virginia Tech University, is dedicated to restoring the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) [1] to its former place in the United States ...