100 Years Gone. Yours To Plant Again.

For more than a century, the American chestnut has been absent from eastern forests.

Today, after decades of research, you are invited to join a small group of landowners to help bring it back.

Through SilvaBio’s Founder’s Circle, select properties will participate in professionally managed research and demonstration plantings of carefully developed blight-tolerant American chestnut trees.  These Founder’s Circle plantings typically involve hundreds of trees and are designed to create meaningful demonstration locations.  

These early plantings are designed to advance restoration science, support wildlife, strengthen forest resilience, and help restore one of America’s most iconic tree species.

Participation is limited to just 25 properties in 2027 and requires a meaningful land and financial commitment.