by Jules Smith | Apr 13, 2017 | eSprout
TACF volunteers in the southern region have been busy with some early spring plantings. On March 18, volunteers from Georgia and Tennessee banded together to add plantings to the Phytophthora orchard at Lake Allatoona in Cartersville, Georgia. Regional Science...
by Jules Smith | Apr 13, 2017 | eSprout
In the quest to create a population of blight resistant American chestnut trees through backcross breeding, large numbers of trees have been planted and screened for resistance to chestnut blight. We aim to select the 1% most blight-resistant trees that will be a...
by Jules Smith | Mar 9, 2017 | External News
The American chestnut was a dominant tree species in Wilkes County and elsewhere in the eastern U.S. before it was decimated by a blight in the early 1900s. About 50 people spent most of Thursday planting about 650 hybrid chestnut tree seedlings near the U.S. Army...
by Jules Smith | Feb 15, 2017 | eSprout
by Samantha Bowers, TACF Grants Manager In January, TACF staff met with U.S. Forest Service – Southern Region staff to discuss the long time partnership between the two organizations. At the Chattooga River District office in Lakemont, GA, fun topics like policy and...
