The American Chestnut Cooperators’Äô Foundation
 Forest Service Road 708, Newport, Virginia 24128

COOPERATING GROWER AGREEMENT FORM FOR ORGANIZATIONS
OR INDIVIDUALS AFFILIATED WITH ORGANIZATIONS

<>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’Äôs decision.
b. Report each fall to the ACCF on the percent survival 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 organization or individual affiliated with an organization 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 representativ(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. 

Signature ____________________________ Date ____________________

Name (please print)__________________________________________________

Organization _____________________________________________________

Address _____________________________________________________

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Telephone ____________________ E-mail _____________________________

My annual donation ($20) to ACCF research is enclosed. 
 
I wish to plant American chestnuts by direct-seeding and will follow ACCF directions for their protection.  Please send me a share of the open-pollinated nuts to be mailed in October 2008; I am digging holes and making cages to plant________(how many).  Maximum request per year: 10.

Dedicated to the restoration of American chestnuts