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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)...
Pollination Season is Almost Here!
It's now a countdown of just days before pre-bagging the Chestnut flowers to avoid open pollination. Have you seen a tree with these leaves and flowers? Click Photo for full-sized image. American chestnut flowering photo courtesy of CT-TACF Director Gayle Kida If...
Watch a chestnut grow!
Links to a movie created from a time-lapse sequence of photos are included at the bottom of this article. Friend of long standing and Renaissance man Joe Aronson, of the Catskills region of NY, recently sent me these time-lapse photos of a chestnut (probably sativa)...
New England Regional Science Coordinator
Please welcome Leila Pinchot to the staff of TACF. Leila is a Graduate Student at the Yale University Graduate School of Forestry, and will split her time between school and serving as TACF?s New England Regional Science Coordinator. While she'll be working with...
Spring Newsletter
This should be in your mailbox by the Memorial Day weekend, but if not, you saw it here first. Click below to download your copy! CT-TACF Spring 2006 Newsletter Color - low resolution [347kb] CT-TACF Spring 2006 Newsletter Color - high resolution [768kb] And some...
Stand of Rare Chestnut Trees Discovered
A stand of American chestnut trees that escaped the blight, has been discovered near President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga. This find has created quite a flurry of news and stirred excitement among those working to restore the...
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Have a great photo of an American chestnut tree, bloom, bur, leaf, restoration planting, volunteer event, or wildlife interaction? We'd love to see it! (Photo pictured taken by 2025 2rd place winner Eric Sizemore)
First Place receives:
- Their photo featured on the cover of a future issue of Chestnut magazine
- A one-year TACF Seed Level Membership (a $300 value!)
- TACF merchandise
Second and Third Place winners will receive:
- TACF swag
- Recognition alongside the first-place winner in the 2027 Spring/Summer issue of Chestnut.
Submit your entries by December 31, 2026.
Visit the following link for more information and complete submission details: tacf.org/2026-photo-contest/
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Josh Roudebush win it all bro I might know a few big boys for the shot
A bee enjoying a well deserved break after the chestnut pollination period. The tree it rests on is a hybrid castanea pumila x alabamensis (dwarf chestnut x Alabama chinquapin).
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Voles got my chestnut, planted spring 2025
August Events! Double check with your states Chapter about events in your area.
Visit the following link for more information on the events: tacf.org/events/category/tacf/
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In a recent article for The Conversation, Dr. Steve Strauss discusses how advances in genomics and biotechnology are creating new opportunities to support chestnut restoration.
We're pleased to see perspectives from a longtime TACF collaborator. Steve served on our Science Advisory Review Committee in 2018 and currently has a pending proposal with TACF to improve genetic transformation methods for chestnut.
Give the article a read and let us know what part of chestnut restoration you're most excited about: theconversation.com/new-genetic-approaches-raise-hopes-for-restoring-the-american-chestnut-to-its...
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Somewhere, waiting discovery deep inside the remote part of a forest towers a thriving blight resistant nut filled American Chestnut (surrounded by dead ones just so we know it was exposed and surviving). We can hope. Taking inspiration from the Dogwood saga.
Professors at S.U.N.Y E.S.F put a wheat gene in to Chestnuts years ago and have growing them
I thought the blight only killed the tree above the ground and not the root system that's why the chestnut resprouts and grows until it gets a scar on it and the blight kills the sprouted tree back down to the ground leaving more viable root system to sprout again in the future.
Unlike most forest trees that rely mostly on wind, American chestnuts recruit insects too.
#americanchestnut #EnvironmentalEducation #pollinator #nativetrees #dronefootage
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Okay, who was in our Monocacy Orchard. MDTACF.