THE
GREAT AMERICAN CHESTNUT RESTORATION!
COPPER BASIN, TN
21 April 2021
Restoring the American Chestnut Operation Springboard
16 AMERICAN CHESTNUTS PLANTED ON RECLAIMED MINE LAND IN EAST TENNESSEE!
3 March 2021
RESTORING THE GREAT AMERICAN CHESTNUT!
Copper Basin, Tennessee
April 2020
Reclaimed Mining Sites
10th Annual Arbor Day Planting Event where students from
Whitwell Middle School made history by planting
blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids on
mine land reclaimed by
Tennessee Consolidated/Lexington Coal Company
10 April 2018
Arbor Day Planting Event where students
from Copper Basin High School made history by
planting blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids
on mine land reclaimed by Copperhill Industries
Successful tree planting
in Polk County, TN
by the Forestry Reclamation Approach
17 April 2018
9th Annual Arbor Day
Planting Event where students
from Stone Elementary School made
history by planting blight-resistant
American Chestnut hybrids on
mine land reclaimed by
Crossville Coal Company Successful tree planting on the
plateau
in Cumberland County, TN on reclaimed
mine land prepared by the
Forestry Reclamation Approach
28 April 2017
8th Annual Arbor Day Planting Event where students from Clairfield & White Oak Schools made history by planting blight-resistant American chestnut hybrids on mine site reclaimed by Kopper Glo Mining, LLC Successful tree planting on top of mountain in Claiborne Co, TN on re-mined land prepared by the Forestry Reclamation Approach 19 April 2016 !!!
7th Annual Arbor Day
Tree Planting Event
Hosted by
DRC Coal Company LLC
with
Clairfield & White Oak
School students
Successful tree planting
on top of mountain in
Campbell Co, TN
on re-mined land prepared
by the
Forestry Reclamation Approach
21 April 2015 !!!
6th Annual
Arbor Day Planting Event
Hosted by
Kopper Glo Mining LLC
with
Clairfield & White Oak
School students
17 April 2014 !!!
SEE
RESULTS of our Annual Arbor Day Tree Planting Event with Lake City (Coal
Creek - Anderson County) Middle School and Wynn-Habersham School (Campbell
County) Students on a coal mining site. 26 April 2013
4th Annual Indoor American Chestnut Nurseries in Appalachian Schools
February 2012
Lake City
Middle School Mining History & Ecology Field Trip -- 11 May 2011
Elk Valley Elementary School
students plant American Chestnuts tocelebrate Arbor Day on Zeb Mountain, Elk Valley, Tennessee
3rd Annual Indoor American Chestnut Nurseries in Appalachian Schools
February 2011
2nd Annual
Indoor American ChestnutNurseries in Appalachian Schools
February 2010
Indoor American Chestnut Nursery at Elk Valley School and Lake City Middle School
Engineering a Better Chestnut Pot 12 January 2009
Chestnuts
may grow on trees,
but coal does not:Field trip by Coal Creek and Elk Valley students to National Coal Corporation’s
Zeb Mountain surface mine
Arbor
Day 2009 --
1200 trees planted!!Saturday, 4 April 2009
Trout, American Chestnuts, and Coal Creek
Mining History:9th Annual History/Ecology Field Trip for Briceville School 15 May 2009
2nd Annual Arbor Day Tree Planting
Event
to Restore the American Chestnut Field Trip by Coal Creek and Elk Valley students to a Reclaimed Surface Mine on Cross Mountain -- 12 April 2010