by Jules Smith | Sep 5, 2017 | External News
TACF Maine Chapter member and University of New England (UNE) Professor, Dr. Thomas Klak is featured in this article about the work being done in Maine, particularly at UNE, to bring back the American chestnut tree. Four germplasm orchards were planted in the state...
by Jules Smith | Aug 4, 2017 | External News
Students at the University of New England’s (UNE) Maine campus grew American chestnut hybrid seedlings this spring in the campus greenhouses. The work was supervised by Thomas Klak, Professor of Environmental Studies at UNE and Chairman of the Gene Conservation...
by Jules Smith | Jun 20, 2017 | External News
Watch this great news story from WABI, the CBS affiliate in Bangor, Maine, about why the state is a breeding ground for the American chestnut. Al Faust, the president of TACF’s Maine Chapter was interviewed, along with Amanda Barbiere, a University of Maine...
by TACF | Jun 15, 2017 | External News
Chestnut Supporters Unite! Kevin Stankiewicz with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette wrote a great article this week on the current progress and restoration of the American chestnut. Both Kim Steiner and Sara Fitzsimmons were interviewed and spoke effortlessly about the...
by TACF | Jun 15, 2017 | External News
By the 1950s, two non-native pathogens had killed almost all American chestnut trees. “There’s a lot of interest in breeding a chestnut that looks like American chestnut, but has the disease resistance of Chinese chestnut,” says U.S. Forest Service research forester...
by TACF | Jun 14, 2017 | External News
The first of multiple unsuccessful efforts to restore the American chestnut tree began in the 1920s, barely two decades after the tree was decimated by an invasive fungus. In the late 1980s, after more than 20 years of inactivity, another wave of restoration efforts...
