by TACF | Apr 3, 2017 | External News
Dalton State College is the home to 10 new American chestnut trees after volunteers planted them along College Drive last week. For several years, employees at Dalton State have been involved in efforts to reintroduce a blight-resistant American chestnut tree to the...
by TACF | Mar 30, 2017 | External News
CLEMSON, South Carolina – In the eastern United States, wherever you see a pine or an oak tree today there likely was a chestnut tree in the 19th century. American chestnut trees once ruled the forests, growing to 100 feet. It was prized for lumber because its grain...
by TACF | Mar 29, 2017 | External News
Check out this NPR interview by David Thomas featuring Dr. Fred Hebard and Doug Levin of the Southwest Virginia Branch.
by TACF | Mar 29, 2017 | External News
Preliminary Research to Assess Deer Exclusion Influence on Survival and Growth of American Chestnut Planted in George Washington National Forest According to Samantha Bowers, “The expected results of this research will be to identify deer exclusion strategies...
by TACF | Mar 27, 2017 | External News
Dave Gill recalls hearing his mother reminisce about gathering fallen chestnuts in woods near her childhood home for use in stuffing at Thanksgiving. That was in the 1920s, when the American chestnut tree was a common denizen of forests from Maine to Mississippi. Over...
