whats up with Clements nursery mark twains old place

I was looking though the different dept of forestry state tree nurseries and learned that West Virginia shut down operations at Clements. I know for fact they have American chestnut trees there that they were experimenting with cross breeding to make them blight resistant. the story I read said the state legislature stopped the funding and tree sales in previous years dropped from millions of trees sold each year to 200,000 the last year they were open.
I wonder whats going on with all the trees they have planted in the ground.
if anyone lives near there and wants to explore I sure would like to have a bucket of those American chestnuts to plant and have another variety in my orchard.

Found your post by trying to read up on the orchard and the (now closed and sold) state nursery that cared for it. Apparently an Anthropic data center is being built there: https://gjep.substack.com/p/urgent-action-alert-save-historic

What I’ve found is that the state nursery was closed in 2021 because it wasn’t profitable. Not sure state nurseries are supposed to be profitable in the first place, but I supposed budgets must be balanced and the nursery lost out. Seems this predates the data center land purchase. Source: https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/last-west-virginia-tree-nursery-shuts-down/

I also found that seeds from this orchard were used to start a second one in the 1990s. Not clear yet where that one might be and if it’s still operational. Source: https://tacf.org/wv-news/wv-chapter-work-day-at-the-clements-tree-nursery-in-mason-county/