Lexington, KY ? The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), a 5,300 member-strong organization will hold its 22nd annual meeting here next week. Tree-growers, scientists, state and federal government officials as well as citizen scientist volunteers will meet to discuss...
Lawrence Inman, PhD Dr. Lawrence Lloyd Inman passed away in September of last year in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 94. Dr. Inman is well remembered amoung members and staff of the American Chestnut Foundation. In the early 1980’s, Dr. Charles Burnham, under...
Former President John Anderson holds framed photo honoring his contributions to the Chapter At our April 19th Annual Meeting the Chapter elected new Board Members and a new slate of Officers. Having served on the board for over a decade, and as Chapter President for...
By Bill Adamsen President, CT Chapter TACF A lecture at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, by author and historian Eric Rutkow, Jan. 28 at 2 p.m. The talk explores the histories of the American chestnut and the American elm, two of the nation's...
(This lecture date has passed) All but eliminated from New England forests by the chestnut blight of 1908-13, the stately American Chestnut is making a comeback thanks to a cross-breeding program that soon hopes to produce blight-resistant trees. In a Pequot Museum...
