by Jules Smith | Apr 13, 2017 | eSprout
Trumbull County, located in the northeast corner of Ohio, is located in the native range of the American chestnut tree. Earlier this spring, a great crew from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Ohio Agriculture, and...
by Jules Smith | Apr 13, 2017 | eSprout
TACF volunteers in the southern region have been busy with some early spring plantings. On March 18, volunteers from Georgia and Tennessee banded together to add plantings to the Phytophthora orchard at Lake Allatoona in Cartersville, Georgia. Regional Science...
by Jules Smith | Apr 13, 2017 | eSprout
In the quest to create a population of blight resistant American chestnut trees through backcross breeding, large numbers of trees have been planted and screened for resistance to chestnut blight. We aim to select the 1% most blight-resistant trees that will be a...
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,...
