by Jules Smith | May 24, 2017 | External News
Outdoor Education staff and students at Green Chimneys’ Clearpool Campusin Carmel, NY got their hands dirty – as they often do – with a hands-on lesson in sustainability and forestry. In April, approximately 35 pure American chestnut seeds provided by the New York...
by TACF | May 22, 2017 | External News
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by an introduced disease — Chestnut blight, eventually will succeed, but it will take longer than many...
by Jules Smith | May 8, 2017 | External News
Ralph Billow, a former longtime employee at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums in Fremont, OH, was recently honored at an American chestnut planting at Spiegel Grove – the same area where President Hayes, in 1873, had planted five, which...
by TACF | May 8, 2017 | External News
Most of the U.S. population is too young to have ever seen the grandeur of the American chestnut in the forests of southern Ohio and throughout the Appalachian mountains. These majestic trees dominated these forests at the turn of the 1900s before being decimated by...
by Jules Smith | May 3, 2017 | External News
On Arbor Day in April, Volunteers in Hamilton, Ohio planted dozens of native trees in the city. Some of the plantings were made possible using a grant from the Ohio Chapter of TACF, that included 25 American chestnut trees. The city plans to buy signage where the...
by TACF | May 2, 2017 | External News
The functionally extinct American chestnut tree is making a comeback in the Virginia Piedmont. A small group of nature-minded individuals, including TACF’s Virginia Chapter president Catherine Mayes, gathered recently in the Culpeper County Sports Complex to...
