Ozark chinquapins are some of the best trees you can plant for wildlife...unless you're in American chestnut country. I have a lot from the OCF planted on our place, but have also been collecting seed from wild trees we've been locating in parts of northeast Texas. I pollinated a couple of trees with some of the pollen from some of the OCF's best blight resistant trees and plan to plant those out in mid to late February, but Ozark chinquapins have more protein than all other chestnuts or acorns for that matter and can be consumed by both deer and turkey...unlike some of the none native chestnuts that are too big for turkeys. Right now the OCF has bred blight resistant trees that are nearly more blight resistant than the Chinese chestnut, so they can now be planted out in the woods for wildlife and survive the blight. I encourage anyone to join and support the foundation..
