by Jules Smith | Jan 26, 2017 | External News
TACF’s TN chapter president, Vicki Turner, was quoted in this article about the largest community tree planting in TN history, slated for February 25, 2017. A number of conservation organizations have created a partnership to distribute and plant 100,000 native...
by Jules Smith | Jan 24, 2017 | External News
The LandTrust for Central North Carolina has announced a new youth initiative aimed at sponsoring outdoors activities and conservation education. In a news release, the Land Trust said the program — called the Leopold Society — would be for children and teenagers in...
by Jules Smith | Jan 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
At 87, E.O. Wilson has lost none of his intellectual rigor. His sentences are long, rolling, full of enough parentheticals to make Proust smile, and delivered in a wonderfully soothing, southern voice. He has an incredible ability to jump from subject to subject, to...
by Jules Smith | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Gary Carver, TACF’s Maryland chapter president, won second place for his “Chestnut Sided Nuthatches” sculpture at this year’s Frederick County Art Association Members Exhibit. If you live in the area, you can visit the exhibit now through...
by Jules Smith | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Clemson forestry students visited Dr. Joe James at Chestnut Return Farm in Upstate South Carolina. This story covers everything from the blight to Phytophthora cinnamomi, the deadly root rot that also had a huge impact on the fate of the American chestnut. A video of...
