by TACF | Mar 6, 2017 | External News
The American chestnut may get a do-over. With a significant new round of grants, The American Chestnut Foundation, based in North Carolina, plans to develop ways to predict chestnut trees’ resistance to diseases that cause chestnut blight and root rot. This method,...
by TACF | Mar 3, 2017 | Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UNITY, Maine — Students in the Conservation Biology program at Unity College will conduct a large planting of chestnut seeds as part of an ongoing restoration experiment this week. It’s the latest phase in a long-term partnership Unity...
by TACF | Mar 3, 2017 | Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Samantha Bowers, The American Chestnut Foundation, Grants Manager 828.281.0047, gro.fca@srewob.ahtnamas ASHEVILLE, N.C. 3/1/17 – Asheville-based conservation nonprofit, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), is pleased to announce it has...
by TACF | Feb 27, 2017 | External News
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Transgenic American chestnuts could soon take root.Claire Dunn, CC BY-ND William Powell, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry American chestnut trees were once among the...
by TACF | Feb 24, 2017 | External News
Catawba College students in Dr. Jay Bolin’s resource ecology and management class took a field trip recently to Frog Hollow Orchard, just outside of Salisbury, to learn about the conservation efforts of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) on the plight of the...
