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Forest Dedicated
For Research
On Friday, May 16, 1969 the Lesesne State Forest in western Nelson County became part of the State Forest lands managed by the Virginia Division of Forestry.
Forester William C. Vemam of the Virginia Division of Forestry reports that the new State Forest is a gift to the Commonwealth of Virginia from Dr. and Mrs. Arthur De T. Valk, Jr., of Wilmington, Delaware and that the forest will be dedicated to the development of blight resistant strains of American Chestnut having the desirable qualities of the native American Chestnut destroyed by the Chestnut Blight.
Research has been and is being
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