by Jules Smith | Apr 16, 2018 | eSprout, Uncategorized
This year, TACF is initiating a range-wide search for surviving American chestnuts in the forest. From Maine to Alabama, our chapters are working on plans to capture thousands of new sources of American chestnut never used in our breeding programs. New American...
by TACF | May 9, 2017 | eSprout, Uncategorized
Send your best chestnut-related photos to TACF. The winning photo will be featured on an upcoming cover of Chestnut magazine and the winning photographer will receive a complimentary one-year membership. Let your creative light shine! How to Enter and Contest Terms:...
by Jules Smith | Jan 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
At 87, E.O. Wilson has lost none of his intellectual rigor. His sentences are long, rolling, full of enough parentheticals to make Proust smile, and delivered in a wonderfully soothing, southern voice. He has an incredible ability to jump from subject to subject, to...
by Jules Smith | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Gary Carver, TACF’s Maryland chapter president, won second place for his “Chestnut Sided Nuthatches” sculpture at this year’s Frederick County Art Association Members Exhibit. If you live in the area, you can visit the exhibit now through...
by Jules Smith | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Clemson forestry students visited Dr. Joe James at Chestnut Return Farm in Upstate South Carolina. This story covers everything from the blight to Phytophthora cinnamomi, the deadly root rot that also had a huge impact on the fate of the American chestnut. A video of...
