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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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A wild American chestnut is always a sight to see, especially one with a healed canker.
Have you found any wild American chestnuts?
#americanchestnut #nature #envrionment #blight #explore
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Quite a few around us in CT, but none that big. I assume what we are seeing are stump sprouts.
God, I hope it has developed genetic resistance and passes that on. I want to live in a world full of American Chestnuts and Elms again
At my art residency in WV there was an American chestnut tree in their yard! I cried! I collected some of the seed pods
Every season tells a story… 🌰
Maybe it’s a chipmunk on the run, a chestnut sprouting new life, or snow dusting winter leaves. However you see it, we want you to capture it. The 2026 American Chestnut Photo Contest is open!
📸 Submit up to 5 photos
🏆 Chance to win TACF gear + a feature in Chestnut magazine + Seed Level membership
🗓️ Entries due December 31, 2026
Your next hike could lead to the winning shot.
Submit photos to: gro.fcat@snoitacinummoc
Visit the following link for more information: tacf.org/2026-photo-contest/
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Visit www.williamsondailynews.com/opinion/appalachian-bluebird-when-the-forests-were-brought-down-the-m... to explore this article on the historic logging industry, the significance of American chestnuts within it, and the methods used to transport logs from the mountains.
#americanchestnut #news #logging #history #explore
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Raping the earth really noble 🤬
Check out this reel by the Seed Crown Company! They are testing whether Seed Crown shelters can help with direct seeding chestnuts in a forest setting.
In this video, Scott Laseter heads out to a montane longleaf restoration area on Georgia's Pine Mountain for the first tally of a direct seeding trial for American chestnuts.
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Check out this informative short video by the Georgia Chapter! It shows you how we process catkins and store pollen for chestnut breeding.
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