The Return of Chestnuts!!!
The Baltimore County Forestry Board, in coordination with the American Chestnut Foundation, plants American Chestnuts and hybrids in various locations throughout the state with seeds supplied by the American Chestnut Foundation grown at the State nursery, and distributed to participating Forestry Boards.
- Seedlings are planted in group of 50
- Growth data is collected on a yearly basis
Note: The Maryland Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation includes members from Maryland, Delaware and Washington D.C.
- The Fall Newsletter is now available.
- Photos of activities can be found in the Photo Gallery, and you can find recent and upcoming activities in an Events calendar .
- For more information about our activities please subscribe to one of our google groups listed below, view our Orchard web pages, and/or visit our How Can I Help page.
The following 4:44 minute CBS video relates the importance of American chestnut trees to our heritage to be used as one of our weapons to conquer climate change. Experts from the American Chestnut Foundation are interviewed.
Other links:
- On-line Membership Form or Print out and mail the Form
- Donate to the Maryland Chapter on-line or Mail a Check
- Contacts for the Maryland Chapter
Baltimore County Forestry Board 
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