"America's Great Lost Tree Is Finally Returning"        YouTube   PBS Terra       739,332 views  Sep 23, 2025
In the forests of Pennsylvania, Shane Campbell-Staton joins Sara Fern Fitzsimmons from The American Chestnut Foundation to track this tree’s strange afterlife and learn the science behind its potential revival. With the help of rare surviving trees, selective breeding, and even gene editing, scientists and volunteers are working to breed blight-resistant trees.
The chestnut’s comeback will take time. But researchers are making steady progress towards developing American chestnut trees that survive and thrive in the native range they formerly dominated. 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADA6cuWy8Xg&t=3s        8 min 32 second video
The Kentucky Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation is doing its part to help the National Efforts to develop blight resistant hybrid American Chestnuts that can be replanted, and compete, in their original forests.           JOIN US:      🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌞      support.tacf.org/membership       Choose the Kentucky Chapter 	
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	Successful Work Day at Kentucky Division of Forestry's Morgan County Tree Nursery     October 23, 2025
Full American Chestnut Orchard, from various Kentucky sources for diversity of Kentucky DNA
Awesome Team today, thanks to the strong Partnership with Kentucky Division of Forestry with the Kentucky Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.    * * * * * 
We 100% completed the trimming of briars and unwanted other species of saplings that birds and squirrels had seeded in amongst our American Chestnut sprouts/trees.
This is a very important orchard for The American Chestnut Foundation's germplasm conservation program with 39 "large" trees  with  59 "seedlings" planted over the last two years.   All full Americans; no hybrids in this orchard.
Thank You KY Division of Forestry.    Thank you today for Charlie Saunders, Wes Brown, Allen Stewart of KDF, and Ken Darnell of KY Chapter TACF       *** 	
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	We are GO for Volunteer Work Day at KY Division of Forestry's Morgan County Tree Nursery
Thursday October 23rd      Beginning around 9:00 am      
Near West Liberty KY          326 Tree Nursery Rd         West Liberty, KY       41472
We can use another couple of Volunteers to help with some light trimming around our full American Chestnut trees               See details in POST BELOW      
RSVP:           moc.rennurdaor@llenradkd 	
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