The main goal of the TACF breeding program is to create a blight-resistant
American chestnut tree. To do that, it will take a presumed six-generations of breeding:

http://acf.org/r_r.php

To create the sixth generation, a fifth-generation needs to be planted (right?).
This page should serve as a resource for those designing and planning those seed orchards.

Tree Breeding
Zobel, B. J. and John Talbert. 1984. Applied Forest Tree Improvement., John Wiley & Sons, New York. USA.
   Re-published in 2003.  Available on Amazon.com

 TACF Seed Orchard Strategy
Volume 16, Issue 1 of TACF Journal
which can be downloaded at http://chestnut.cas.psu.edu/literature.htm
(see also Volume 8, Issue 1)

 Mating Designs
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~fisik/course/mdesigns.pdf

Penn State Arboretum
http://www.arboretum.psu.edu/planning/orchard.html
http://www.cas.psu.edu/docs/agis/news/june02/chestnut.html
http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/robertson.html

Some data
http://chestnut.cas.psu.edu/Reports/PATACF_Report.htm

DOWNLOADS:
(right-click to save as)

Presenation given to MA Chapter (3/2008)
     seed_orchard - PDF file, 4MB

Handouts from that meeting:
1. PSU Arboretum map:
     arboretum map - PDF, 100KB

2. Additional resources:
     more info - DOC, 425KB

3. PA-TACF inoc'ed lines summary:
     lines - XLS, 110KB