by TACF | Mar 29, 2017 | External News
Check out this NPR interview by David Thomas featuring Dr. Fred Hebard and Doug Levin of the Southwest Virginia Branch.
by TACF | Mar 29, 2017 | External News
Preliminary Research to Assess Deer Exclusion Influence on Survival and Growth of American Chestnut Planted in George Washington National Forest According to Samantha Bowers, “The expected results of this research will be to identify deer exclusion strategies...
by TACF | Mar 27, 2017 | External News
Dave Gill recalls hearing his mother reminisce about gathering fallen chestnuts in woods near her childhood home for use in stuffing at Thanksgiving. That was in the 1920s, when the American chestnut tree was a common denizen of forests from Maine to Mississippi. Over...
by Jules Smith | Mar 9, 2017 | External News
The American chestnut was a dominant tree species in Wilkes County and elsewhere in the eastern U.S. before it was decimated by a blight in the early 1900s. About 50 people spent most of Thursday planting about 650 hybrid chestnut tree seedlings near the U.S. Army...
by TACF | Mar 6, 2017 | External News
A blight-resistant American chestnut tree. The next step. SUNY-ESF is working in collaboration with The American Chestnut Foundation to restore the American chestnut tree to its former prominence in the forests, ecology and economy of the United States. The next step...
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,...
