The American Chestnut
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Foundation
Forest Service Road 708, Newport, Virginia 24128
COOPERATING GROWER AGREEMENT
FORM
The Cooperator Agrees To:
1. Work with
the ACCF in conducting the research outlined below.
2. Conduct at the Cooperator location(s) as appropriate, research
directed toward the growing and testing the field performance of
all-American chestnuts from the ACCF breeding program. Activities
include:
a. Plant and grow American chestnut seedlings,
scionwood and seednuts sent out by the ACCF to the Cooperator.
The number of trees sent each year will be the Cooperator's
decision.
b. Report each fall to the ACCF on the number
surviving and progress of all surviving American chestnuts which were
grown from scionwood, seedlings and/or seednuts in the ACCF breeding
program. Location(s) of the planting(s), with a rough map, should
be included. The individual agrees that all other reports
or copies of reports concerning these American chestnuts will be sent
with the ACCF report.
c. Participate with the ACCF director(s) or
officer(s) in evaluating the field blight resistance and forest tree
form of all-American chestnuts sent to the Cooperator by the
ACCF, to be done when the trees are of sufficient size (usually
> 1 inch diameter at breast height (dbh)).
d. Include ACCF representative(s) (directors
or officers) as coauthor(s) in the preparation of manuscripts and
publication of papers resulting from the research described above.
I agree to the above as a Cooperator of the
ACCF. Further, I pledge that the chestnut grove which I plan to
establish will be 100% all-American and that genetic materials, i.e.,
germplasm, nuts, trees or scions from my ACCF chestnuts will not be
used in hybrid or other breeding programs without specific permission
from ACCF directors, and they will not be given to others who have not
submitted this form to the ACCF.
Signature
____________________________
Date ____________________
Name (please
print)__________________________________________________
Address
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________zip-code_________________
Telephone
____________________ E-mail ______________________________
A 2008 donation ($20) to ACCF
research is required with all nut or seedling requests.
Please send me some
of this fall's seednuts; I would like to plant ____ (no more than 10)
nuts.
The 2008 minimum cost for
25 or fewer seedlings mailed Priority is $30. West of the
Mississippi, add $5 for higher mailing cost. Please send me (how
many)_______ American chestnut seedlings. By December, I shall
have dug the holes and made protection cages.
Dedicated to
the restoration of American chestnuts