by Jules Smith | Aug 15, 2017 | eSprout
On August 11, 2017, a ceremonial planting of six B3F3s and one American chestnut (from TACF board member, Jack Lamonica) was held at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Tygart Lake office in Grafton WV, organized by Manager, Stacy Lewis. Robert Sypolt, President...
by Jules Smith | Aug 14, 2017 | eSprout
Hello Chestnut Enthusiasts! I joined the TACF team on July 10 as the new Southern Regional Science Coordinator. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia (UVA) with a minor in Global Sustainability. While at UVA, I...
by Jules Smith | Aug 14, 2017 | eSprout
The 8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration take place on Saturday, October 14 from 1:00-5:00PM at the Glenn C. Price Research Laboratory in Meadowview, Virginia. “The Celebration provides a rare opportunity to see the expansion of resources at the Research Farm...
by Jules Smith | Aug 14, 2017 | eSprout
Growing up thirty minutes from the coast of California, I didn’t exactly come from a place where people knew what an American chestnut was, let alone the story of the tree. A love of reading and of the outdoors, as well as the desire to get nearly as far from...
by Jules Smith | Jul 13, 2017 | eSprout
For the past three breeding seasons, TACF’s Meadowview staff has been performing controlled crosses between American chestnut backcross trees previously identified to have inherited resistance to chestnut blight or Phytophthora root rot from Chinese chestnut. Trees...
by Jules Smith | Jun 16, 2017 | eSprout
TACF is offering a $200 reward for the largest American chestnut tree found in the trees native range in 2017. The tree should be healthy and the property owner must allow access to the tree for pollination and/or seed collection. To be eligible, the following three...
