by Jules Smith | Aug 14, 2017 | eSprout
The 8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration take place on Saturday, October 14 from 1:00-5:00PM at the Glenn C. Price Research Laboratory in Meadowview, Virginia. “The Celebration provides a rare opportunity to see the expansion of resources at the Research Farm...
by Jules Smith | Aug 14, 2017 | eSprout
Growing up thirty minutes from the coast of California, I didn’t exactly come from a place where people knew what an American chestnut was, let alone the story of the tree. A love of reading and of the outdoors, as well as the desire to get nearly as far from...
by Jules Smith | Aug 4, 2017 | External News
Students at the University of New England’s (UNE) Maine campus grew American chestnut hybrid seedlings this spring in the campus greenhouses. The work was supervised by Thomas Klak, Professor of Environmental Studies at UNE and Chairman of the Gene Conservation...
by Jules Smith | Jul 13, 2017 | eSprout
For the past three breeding seasons, TACF’s Meadowview staff has been performing controlled crosses between American chestnut backcross trees previously identified to have inherited resistance to chestnut blight or Phytophthora root rot from Chinese chestnut. Trees...
by Jules Smith | Jun 20, 2017 | External News
Watch this great news story from WABI, the CBS affiliate in Bangor, Maine, about why the state is a breeding ground for the American chestnut. Al Faust, the president of TACF’s Maine Chapter was interviewed, along with Amanda Barbiere, a University of Maine...
