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Time for Sighting Chestnuts
There are certain routes I frequently drive in Connecticut based on certain chores or repetitive tasks ... meetings, work, chauffering kids to their sports. One frequent drive is up Route 8 from Bridgeport to Winsted. I was a little shocked last weekend while making...
CT-TACF Featured in Hartford Courant
Today's Hartford Courant features a story by Columnist Steve Grant, focused on TACF efforts to restore the Americant chestnut. The article contains a picture and quotes by Leila Pinchot, and additional quotes by Sandy Anagnostakis. Hopefully it will provide some...
Growing in Guilford
by Leila Pinchot I visited the orchard today, and I was delighted to see that 15 of the 20 nuts have sent up shoots (see attached photo). Nuts can sometimes wait until July to sprout, so we may have even more seedlings develop. Thank you all for planting the orchard,...
A Great Day At Great Mountain Forest
By Leila Pinchot On Tuesday, May 29th the Connecticut Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, in collaboration with Great Mountain Forest Inc. and the Housatonic Valley Regional High School, planted the last chestnut orchard of the season. Sixteen students from...
Salem Orchard and David Bingham
A fine article was published today in New London's the Day as written by David Collins. See the attached document.
Great Mountain Forest Orchard
Tuesday May 30th, Volunteers from the CT Chapter of TACF, students from Housatonic Valley Regional High School, and employees of Great Mountain Forest Corporation descended on a site on Undermountain Road in Falls Village to plant our long planned northwest CT...
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From far away, it looks okay. Up close, and inside, it’s clear these barns can no longer protect the work of restoration. This Earth Day and throughout our Spring Appeal, help us raise the barn that supports the return of the American chestnut.
Click the following link to donate: support.tacf.org/2026SpringAppeal
#earthday #donate #springappeal #americanchestnut #explorepage
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We had a great time at our recent spring meeting, part of which included a tour of Meadowview Research Farms for staff and our board of directors. We discussed current projects and the future of the recurrent genomic selection (RGS) program, and highlighted important infrastructure needs that will help support future growth and continued research efforts. Investing in these areas will be key to advancing our mission and strengthening the work being done. We could not have done this alone; thank you to everyone who participated and contributed to such a productive and inspiring day!
#americanchestnut #RestorationInProgress #chestnutresearch #forestrestoration #meadowviewresearchfarms #conservationscience
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April events! Kicking things off is Chestnut Chat, an event open to everyone, everywhere.
Visit our events calendar for more information on each event.
#explorepage #chestnutchat #events #getinvolved #ActNow
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Check out this article on Clemson News about how scientists from Clemson University, Virginia Tech and The American Chestnut Foundation are using genomic selection to develop trees capable of surviving chestnut blight and Phytophthora root rot.
Read the article to hear more about Clemson's role in studying Phytophthora root rot: news.clemson.edu/clemson-scientists-help-advance-effort-to-restore-the-american-chestnut/
#explorepage #news #environment #americanchestnut #nature
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Good luck
To have the American chestnut tree back would be so great. I remember them. Yep, I am that old!
Would have loved to seen them when they covered the Eastern Forest , Great news on developing a blight and root rot resistant Chestnut
We are not apart from the Earth—we are a part of it. Not something to own or use, but something we belong to. A living part of us, meant to be loved and cared for as deeply as anything else we hold dear.
#restoration #conservation #americanchestnut #chestnut #trees #trending
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“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” ― Aldo Leopold