1	Establishment of a Backcross Chestnut Orchard Clark Cropper
2	Orchard Location
3	Planted 2 Trees May 2006
4	Site Characteristics Elevation 830 ft Southwest facing slope Slopes about 12% Upper Fort Payne Soil is cherty silt loam
5	Site Preparation May 2007
6	Spacing
7	Planting & Tubes
8	Watering
9	Finished Orchard
10	Planted Two Lines & Controls
11	Orchard Design
12	Growth after 8 Weeks
13	Deer Pressure
14	Deer Pressure After 6 weeks some trees had grown out of the 2ft tree tubes I began putting wire cages around trees as they grew above tubes By 12 weeks 17 trees had overgrown their tubes
15	Deer Protection
16	Drought
17	Survival after 23 Weeks
18	Wind Damage? Deer?
19	Re-Planting On December 21^st Planted 14 Hybrids to fill in spots where trees had died or failed to emerge.
20	Future We plan to plant another 100 trees next spring from new lines, and if all goes well another 100 trees the next year After their 3^rd year of growth the trees will be inoculated with the blight fungus Trees lacking resistance will be destroyed, but trees showing resistance will be used to advance the breeding program
21	"Joe Schibig" Joe Schibig Hill Craddock Nick Yorlano TN TACF
22	"Background info sources were" Background info sources were: The American Chestnut Foundation web site: www.acf.org The TN-TACF web site: www2.volstate.edu/tnchestnut Hebard, F.V. 2005 “The Backcross Breeding Program of the American Chestnut Foundation” In proc. Of conf. on restoration of American chestnut to forest lands. Steiner, K.C. and J.E. Carlson (eds.).