Help restore the American Chestnut

[hedgehog]

https://fundly.com/10-000-chestnut-challenge

[surrealAmerican]

1. Do the nuts from these resistant trees grow into resistant trees themselves?

American chestnuts are great trees. I've seen some here in the mid-west (outside their native range, where chestnut blight never spread). I hope this solution could work long-term.

[hedgehog]

2. I don't see this addressed specifically, but if I read this right,

the nuts should generate blight resistant trees.

It looks to me like this is a GMO product .

More here:

http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/#.VGYtCcm9ZZ4

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Too bad they won't let people contribute by buying seedlings.

I would happily plant them on our property.

[hedgehog]

4. Keep your eyes open for news

"We will soon be taking the blight resistant American chestnut trees through the federal regulatory review process involving the USDA, the EPA, and the FDA, which we expect to take several years to complete. Once approved, these trees will be distributed to the public at minimal costs in a not-for-profit program to restore the American chestnut tree, thereby benefiting our forests. This is a lengthy and costly process and we need your support to make this happen.
How can you get one of the transgenic trees?

Details for distribution of the blight resistant American chestnut trees, once they are approved for non-regulated status, are still being worked out between the SUNY-ESF and the NY chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACFNY). What we can say at this point in the deliberations is that TACFNY members will be first in line to receive trees (Join the national ACF to become a TACFNy member). We are also planning ways to offer trees to botanical gardens and arboretums for educational purposes, historic sites where chestnuts were important, and to set up restoration research plots. Soon after that they should be available to the general public and to start practical applications like mine reclamation projects. If we can produce 10,000 blight resistant American chestnut trees by the time we have federal approval, there should be enough to "prime the pump" of restoration. Support the 10,000 Chestnut Challenge!"

http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/#.VGaX2cm9ZZ5

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. thank you for finding that info.

I was preoccupied by hungry mouths here.

[handmade34]

5. I learned about Chestnut Trees

reading Barbara Kingsolver's "Prodigal Summer" ...best part of the book was that info

[trof]

6. I remember the roasted chestnut vendors in Paris and Amsterdam.

Usually around Christmas.
Yum.