by Jules Smith | Aug 30, 2018 | External News
Science Magazine, one of the world’s top academic journals, recently published an article about scientific research involving the transgenic American chestnut tree. Journalist Gabriel Popkin interviewed Dr. Jared Westbrook, TACF’s director of science, Dr....
by Jules Smith | Aug 3, 2018 | External News
TACF’s Director of Restoration, Sara Fitzsimmons, had an article published recently about the work TACF is doing to restore the American chestnut tree. The article was requested by The Rewilding Institute, an organization whose mission is to “explore and...
by Jules Smith | Aug 2, 2018 | External News
TACF’s MA/RI Chapter is getting media attention for their work at the Robert J. Presutti Chestnut Orchard in Pittsfield, MA. The orchard, in Springside Park, was started in 2014 and occupies about 1.5 acres of meadowland in the park’s interior. It contains 3,000...
by Jules Smith | Jun 22, 2018 | External News
Dr. William Powell, TACF committee member and Co-Director of the American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), and Andrew Newhouse, Researcher at SUNY-ESF were...
by Jules Smith | May 31, 2018 | External News
Marty Cipollini, TACF’s GA-Chapter science coordinator and professor of biology at Berry College in Rome, GA is working diligently with the help of others to revive the American chestnut through painstaking development of potentially blight-resistant trees. The...
by Jules Smith | May 30, 2018 | External News
At the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, a team of researchers are using the tools of biotechnology to produce fully American chestnut trees that successfully tolerate blight infections, protecting the tree without even harming the...
