The Problem: By 1940 chestnut blight had nearly wiped out the American chestnut tree. The wood that built most of America's barns and homes east of the Mississippi for 3 centuries was virtually gone.
Today fewer than 100 large specimens survive in its native range.
Who: American Chestnut Foundation
Why are they special? Trying to bring a blight-resistant American chestnut back to its native range. They harvested blight-resistant nuts in 2005. Reforestation may begin in 2015.
Where: Asheville, North Carolina (Wouldn't Chestnut Grove in the same state be more appropriate?)
Started: 1983
What the top person makes: $120,000 (2010)
General site: Home page
Charity Navigator report
Link to help: Donations. You can become a member too but apparently not online. Maybe this charity will wake up one day. Mailing stuff in is so 80s.
Deductible? Yes
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