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...
by TACF | Mar 17, 2017 | eSprout
On an early November morning, I loaded two large coolers filled with over 10,000 chestnuts into the car and headed out to meet with Greg Turner of the Pennsylvania Game of the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC). PA-TACF is collaborating on a project with the PGC to...
by TACF | Mar 17, 2017 | eSprout
We all know the story by now: a little more than 100 years ago, American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was rapidly removed as an overstory tree throughout the eastern United Sates by the fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica, which causes chestnut blight. Now, The...
by TACF | Mar 17, 2017 | eSprout
The Tennessee Chapter of TACF met March 11 at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, a winter wonderland of snow-covered tulip, hyacinth, and redbud blossoms. Ed Schwartzman, Regional Science Coordinator, and Hill Craddock, UTC professor and chestnut grower extraordinaire,...
by TACF | Mar 16, 2017 | eSprout
The forest may be sleeping but the volunteers of The American Chestnut Foundation continue to move our restoration mission forward through the long winter months. Just in the PA/NJ Chapter alone, we have seen volunteers multiply the efforts of staff on both the...
