Camp Davy Crockett – Tree Day

Camp Davy Crockett needs volunteers to help plant hybrid American-Japanese Chestnut Trees.

Work to begin at 9:00 AM and complete around Lunch.

Lunch Provided

More details on registration to follow.

More than a century ago, an estimated four billion American chestnuts were flourishing in the eastern United States from Maine to Alabama. During early summer when the American chestnut blooms, along the Appalachian ridges where the tree once grew thickly, its creamy white flowers made the mountainsides appear snow-covered. In the early 20th century, a chestnut blight devastated the American chestnut tree population in North America. Work is now under way to restore the chestnut groves with a hybrid mixture of American and Japanese species that is blight resistant.