Learn about the History of Chestnut Breeding
Join us for a walking tour of Lesesne State Forest, where chestnut breeding has been going on since 1968. See large surviving American chestnuts that we grafted there in the 1980s, 56-year hybrid chestnuts from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, several generations of backcross chestnuts, and controlled crosses of large surviving American chestnuts. You will see varying degrees of blight resistance. This is one of the largest plantings of blight-resistant chestnuts.
Lesesne State Forest
Latitude/Longitude: 37° 50′ 32.3″, -78° 57′ 50.0″