Sara Fitzsimmons, Director of Restoration and Regional Science Coordinator Supervisor, is planning a large progeny test planting at Red Clay Reservation (northern Delaware)  Thursday, April 13 – Saturday, April 15. 

They are planting close to 1000 trees, so need your help! Continue reading Save The American Chestnut – Planting 1000 Trees →

A half-day workshop will be held Saturday, April 8, by Maryland’s Carroll County Forestry Board. The event will focus on the importance of reforesting land adjacent to bodies of water.

After the workshop, free seedlings will be handed out. Subsidized tree shelters and stakes will be sold. If you would you like to attend, print out the attached application and mail it to the address on the brochure. If you are purchasing tree shelters and stakes, make your check payable to CCFB and include it with your application.

There is a $5 registration fee. Details and registration are available  at this link. Please disregard the application due date.

An American chestnut bur grows at The American Chestnut Foundation in Virginia. Their hybrid trees, the result of more than 30 years of backcross breeding of American and Chinese chestnut trees, aim to preserve the American species’ qualities while adding the Chinese species’ resistance to blight. Continue reading The American Chestnut Needs You →