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Using Pollen from Land Between The Lakes
WE’RE SO HAPPY …….. RETURNED TO STEVE HARTMAN FULL AMERICAN ORCHARD, SCOTTSVILLE, KY near Tennessee Border to apply pollen from three LBL wild Americans, harvested, processed and stored last June by Lee Grace, UK Forestry Technician, from trees previously TreeSnapped...
KY TACF Partnership with USFS Daniel Boone National Forest
Thank you Scott Ray for inviting us to attend DBNF Annual Meeting held at Berea College Dr. Ellen Crocker, Scott Ray, and Ken Darnell, KY TACF Board Members, conducted a presentation on TreeSnap and the State University of New York's "Darling 58" transgenic American...
Many Miles Completed in Search for wild, full American Chestnuts Across Kentucky
Our Kentucky Volunteers have driven and hiked many miles across the state searching wild full American Chestnuts and “Snapped” them into our data base using the free TreeSnap app. We estimate that we have observed close to 4,000 wild Americans, “Snapping” 1,543...
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"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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Eric Sizemore
Oh my. I misread this post. Thought it was a Pennsylvania group. Still though, very good news to see other states bringing them back.
We've got a few in Kentucky as well.
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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Kentucky Division of Forestry
Thanks for your hard work and dedication guys.
Do you sell seeds or saplings from there?
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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