by Jules Smith | Sep 18, 2017 | eSprout
Come to Rowlesburg, WV this fall and enjoy one of only two public chestnut festivals on the east coast. The 10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival will take place rain or shine on Sunday, October 8 from 10:30AM – 7:30PM. The glory of autumn will be on...
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...
