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- Healthy American chestnut hybrid growing in Western North Carolina.
- Wild American chestnut trees (lower third) growing in Western North Carolina.
- A catkin blooms on this young American chestnut hybrid.
- New leaf growth on an American chestnut at Meadowview Research Farms, Virginia.
- American chestnut burs and nuts from a tree in Maryland.
- An open American chestnut bur.
- An American chestnut infected with blight.
- This man (lower right third) is dwarfed by a large surviving American chestnut in Kentucky.
- TACF volunteers help plant a seed orchard at Seven Islands State Park in TN.
- A freshly planted seedling at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC is surrounded by a cage to protect it from deer browse.
- A TACF volunteer plants hybrid chestnut seeds in a greenhouse at the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park.
- Progeny test orchard at Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virginia.
- Meadowview Greenhouse and Shade Houses at Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virginia.
- A dewy sunrise at Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virginia.
- Students at SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry perform stem inoculations on small transgenic trees in New York.
- Planting transgenic seedlings at an orchard in New York.
- Pollination workshop at State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
- Chestnut Giants, Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina, circa 1910. Photo credit: Forest History Society.
- The Family of James and Caroline Shelton pose by a large dead American chestnut tree in Tremont Falls, Tennessee, circa 1920. Photo credit: Great Smoky Mountains National Park Library.
- Gathering Chestnuts, by JW Lauderbach, from The Art Journal of 1878.
- Native range map of the American chestnut.