What Can You Do?

• Collect acorns from your best white oak trees to help build a white oak breeding program and ensure the sustainability of the bourbon industry.
• Help UK researchers improve the sustainability of high-quality white oak for bourbon barrels by saving acorns from especially good trees.
• We are looking for volunteers willing to collect acorns.  In particular, we will look for acorns from white oak trees that will likely produce high quality wood, to be used in veneer or stave production.
• Collected acorns will be added to a white oak breeding program to help scientists select the best oaks and make them available to woodland owners for future planting.

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Email: e.crocker@uky.edu