Record #:

36456

Author(s):

Shapiro, Leah

Abstract:

Joining sustainability efforts is the nonprofit American Chestnut Foundation. Factors assuring their sustainability success included partnerships with universities possessing cutting edge technological tools, a successful breeding program at Meadowview Research Farms, and advocacy of volunteers and members known familiarly as “chestnutters.”

Source:

The Laurel of Asheville (NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 2, February 2016, p87

Subject(s):

Ecology; Conservationists--North Carolina, Western; Nonprofit organizations; American chestnut; Smith-McDowell House (Asheville); Volunteerism; Hardwoods; Land management; Sustainability