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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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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/
#AmericanChestnut #PhotoContest #TACF #ChestnutMagazine #ConservationPhotography #ForestRestoration #NaturePhotography
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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/
#americanchestnut #Connecticut #NorthCarolina #SouthCarolina #getinvolved
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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.