by TACF | Jun 15, 2017 | External News
By the 1950s, two non-native pathogens had killed almost all American chestnut trees. “There’s a lot of interest in breeding a chestnut that looks like American chestnut, but has the disease resistance of Chinese chestnut,” says U.S. Forest Service research forester...
by TACF | Jun 14, 2017 | External News
The first of multiple unsuccessful efforts to restore the American chestnut tree began in the 1920s, barely two decades after the tree was decimated by an invasive fungus. In the late 1980s, after more than 20 years of inactivity, another wave of restoration efforts...
by TACF | May 22, 2017 | External News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by an introduced disease — Chestnut blight, eventually will succeed, but it will take longer than many...
by TACF | May 9, 2017 | eSprout, Uncategorized
Send your best chestnut-related photos to TACF. The winning photo will be featured on an upcoming cover of Chestnut magazine and the winning photographer will receive a complimentary one-year membership. Let your creative light shine! How to Enter and Contest Terms:...
by TACF | May 8, 2017 | External News
Most of the U.S. population is too young to have ever seen the grandeur of the American chestnut in the forests of southern Ohio and throughout the Appalachian mountains. These majestic trees dominated these forests at the turn of the 1900s before being decimated by...
