Canadian Chestnut Council

Projects to break reproductive isloation of endangered species american chestnut through plantings of grafted trees to preserve species breed blight tolerance into tree for restoration to nature support dna testing to assess purity of in-situ trees support propagation method development to assist population increase and preservation - suppport investigation of presence of biological control of invesive fungud chestnut blight - grow and plant out trees to establish seed colonies to preseve species