Volunteers from the Tennessee Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation use the Eagle Point Railroad to haul the planting crew and trees to the site of a 600-tree silviculture test. Watch this short video to get an idea of the kind of work we do on the Cumberland Plateau to restore the American chestnut!
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In the mid 1800s, two American Chestnuts were planted in what is now Tumwater, WA. Being so far outside the native range (and being across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains), they escaped the blight fungus that killed the chestnuts in their native Appalachian range. These two trees are amazing and can give you a sense of the size and beauty of American Chesnut trees regularly reached before the blight. Getting to sit under the shade of two mature chestnut trees was a true pleasure and one that not many have experienced.
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I'd plant the crap out of them if I lived out there
It’s so heartbreaking that they aren’t still abundant.
