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...
by Jules Smith | Jun 16, 2017 | eSprout
In December of 2016, TACF renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). The singed memorandum promotes the reforestation of surface mines using scientifically...
by Jules Smith | Jun 16, 2017 | eSprout
Plant breeding is a numbers game. The more trees you have, the better your chances of finding one that has the desired combination of genes. Though we plant 150 trees from each family line in our seed orchard plots, these seedlings can die from a variety of causes –...
by Jules Smith | May 15, 2017 | eSprout
On April 21 and 25, high school students at the Tidioute Community Charter School in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, dug into forest research by volunteering to plant backcross American chestnut seedlings on the Allegheny National Forest. Their work will help Northern...
by Jules Smith | May 15, 2017 | eSprout
National Arbor Day, April 28, was celebrated in TN by certifying the Governor’s Residence as a level 2 arboretum by the TN Urban Forest Council. A level 2 arboretum requires 60 different species of trees, labeled with common name and scientific name and a map...
by Jules Smith | May 15, 2017 | eSprout
On a sunny Sunday morning in April, fourteen volunteers showed up to help ME-TACF orchard manager Larry Totten and Maine Chapter Board members plant 600 seeds in our chestnut seed orchard in Phippsburg, ME. The orchard consists of two blocks of Clapper-resistance B3F2...
