The American Chestnut forest was destroyed by a blight that was imported on Japanese chestnuts.
They are desperately trying to hybridize or GMO a resistant American Chestnut.
www.tacf.org
A neighbor in Siskiyou Co. planted about 15 acres of chestnuts. Not sure of the variety. I do know that he doesn’t bother to pick up the size nuts that I saw a while back for $10/# at a grocery store in the SF Bay area.
A car with CA plates is usually waved through ag checkpoints in a lane signed ‘local returns’. At times, there is no one there at all. Medford is popular for Northern CA. shopping. No sales tax. Alcohol free gas is for sale (lasts a long time) as is over the counter products for team of Mr. Wesson and Ms. Smith. Sames true in NV. near Truckee. Cabelas built a huge store in Boomtown.
They’re available...both the old ones and the new resistant breeds.