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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...
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...
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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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