by Jules Smith | Jul 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
By Ken Darnell, KY Chapter President Kentucky Chapter partners and volunteers showed awesome teamwork in pollination efforts this year. Our American chestnut tree flowers matured over a wide range of dates in June 2023. This year we created a chart of “Prime Flower...
by Jules Smith | Jan 26, 2023 | External News
A recent article, published just before the holidays, shares the history of restoration efforts of the American chestnut tree. The article continues on to detail the current deregulation efforts towards the transgenic tree, Darling 58. “Over the last twenty...
by Jules Smith | Jan 11, 2023 | eSprout, External News
American Chestnuts once numbered in the billions and ranged along the East coast from Maine to Mississippi. But a blight in the early 1900s pushed them back to a fraction of their historic range. Today, the American Chestnut is considered “functionally extinct”, but...
by Jules Smith | Sep 7, 2022 | External News
In a recent article by The Washington Post, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) in partnership with the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) continue the conversation around the transgenic breeding of the American...
by Jules Smith | Jul 11, 2022 | eSprout
Foundation Sees Restoration of Functionally Extinct Chestnut Trees as a Path to Healthier Forests ASHEVILLE, N.C., July 11, 2022 – The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) said today that its longtime mission of restoring the American chestnut tree to its native...
