Salem Orchard Work Party

Saturday June 17th several TACF members descended upon the Salem American chestnut orchard to cultivate this seasons new seedlings and optimize their chances for survival and growth rate. [click on link for larger image] In attendance were (from left in photo below)...

Save the American Chestnut!

Come to Earthplace in Westport for the grand opening at 2:00PM of Natureplace, a new indoor nature experience, and a fun program about the endangered American Chestnut trees. Natureplace features a great big tree in the Explorers? Clubhouse. Gather near the Clubhouse...

Science Cabinet Statement from TACF Spring Meeting

The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is breeding chestnut trees for ability to survive the blight disease, which killed almost all our native American chestnut. TACF?s goal is to confer on American chestnut the ability to thrive in our nation?s woodlands, as it...