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American Chestnut Tree Planted at (Jimmy) Carter Center
September 21, 2005 - Former United States President (and American Chestnut Foundation Honorary Director) Jimmy Carter, and American Chestnut Foundation President Marshal Case participated in the planting of an American chestnut at the Carter Center. The Carter Center...
Harvest
All over the State of Connecticut, CT-TACF members are getting their bucket trucks, orchard ladders, and thick rubber gloves to harvest the backcross nuts. Reports coming in indicate success with the harvest. The Enfield team wasn't finished with the analysis,...
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Annual Meeting
Saturday November 12th This year our Annual Meeting is being held at Yale University in New Haven, co-sponsored by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, the Yale Student Chapter of Society of American Foresters, and the CT Chapter of The American Chestnut...
A Visit to CT Agricultural Experiment Station
I had the opportunity to visit Dr. Sandy Anagnostakis on a morning tour of the Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station (CAES) in Hamden. With their new half mile long deer fence, CAES cutting edge research, and thousands of chestnuts heavy with nuts, I had pleanty...
New Web Site
You are looking at the new web site of the CT-TACF. This site was designed to provide the local membership, and potential membership with timely information about past and future events, and documents relevant to their work with the American Chestnut foundation, the...
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Did you know that Allegheny chinquapins can get chestnut blight?
#americanchestnut #DidYouKnow #explore #nature #Conservation
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Would it get a lot bigger if it didn't get the blight? If so, how much?
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/
#naturelovers #americanchestnut #photographycontest #exploremore #photography
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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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