The Finger Lakes Native Plant Society Presents a slide show & talk on American Chestnut. The NY chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation has been working with SUNYESF in Syracuse for over 27 years. They have finally developed a truly blight resistant American chestnut, by inserting one "1" gene from wheat‡ , which gives a tree that is 99.997% pure American. ESF is also working on using the same gene to develop blight resistant Allegheny and Ozark Chinquapin, which are part of the chestnut family. Other diseased trees, e.g. American Elm and butternut are being researched as well. Come hear about the progress on overcoming the devastating diseases of these iconic forest trees.