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The chestnut blight was introduced in the late 19th century with the Japanese chestnut and decimated the once-widespread American chestnut tree. [9] Native un-modified trees are killed from the ground up by the blight, and only the root system survives.
The mission of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is to restore the American chestnut tree to the forests of Eastern North America by breeding genetically diverse blight-resistant trees, evaluating various approaches to the management of chestnut pests and pathogens, and reintroducing the trees into the forest in an ecologically acceptable manner.
Jul. 12—For park Manager Rob Barrese, Lackawanna State Park's participation in a project to help restore the American chestnut to its former glory has become a matter of growing and waiting. The ...
There is a program to bring American chestnut back to the Eastern forest funded by the American Chestnut Foundation, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest Service, West Virginia University, Michigan State University, and Cornell University. [40]
The American chestnut tree was nearly wiped out by disease. But efforts are underway to develop a new strain that's more resistant to blight.
The original habitat of the American chestnut. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Wikimedia Commons. An estimated 3 billion to 6 billion American chestnut trees once covered forests ...
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 ...
Struck by a blight identified in 1904, American chestnut trees are considered "functionally extinct." Now those that remain are facing a new disease.