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The materials provided on this page are designed to assist you in developing a successful story about The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF). Credit for all images should be listed as “courtesy of The American Chestnut Foundation”.

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Young green chestnut burs at Meadowview Research Farms

Chestnut Giants, Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina. c.1910. Courtesy of Forest History Society

Sources for Historical Images

TACF cannot redistribute historical images for external use but you may contact these sources directly:

Forest History Society (images require licensing)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Collections (images require licensing)
Open Parks Network (most historical American chestnut images are royalty free and high res, check image details for terms of use)

TACF Public Relations Resources Image Gallery

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Burs and Nuts

Young green chestnut burs at Meadowview Research Farms

Harvesting an American chestnut at TACFs Meadowview Research Farms

Open bur of-an American chestnut

American chestnuts are hairy and smaller yet sweeter than European and Asian varieties

Catkins and Leaves

New leaf growth on a young American chestnut sapling

Catkin on a hybrid American chestnut

Catkin flowers closeup on American chestnut tree

Sun shining through the leaves of an American chestnut hybrid

American Chestnut Trees

Wild American chestnut seedling in NY

Sun shining through a canopy of hybrid American chestnut trees.

Wild American chestnut in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC

Healthy B2F2 hybrid chestnut tree in Western North Carolina

Wildlife with the American Chestnut

Gray tree frog in a chestnut tree

Red spotted purple butterfly on an American chestnut hybrid

A Tufted Titmouse sits on the limb of an American chestnut

Barred owl on an American chestnut hybrid in Tennessee

Meadowview Research Farms

A greenhouse full of chestnut seedlings at Meadowview Research Farms, VA

An orchard of small hybrid trees with larger tree in the foreground at Meadowview Research Farms

Meadowview Research Farms controlled pollination on a chestnut tree from a bucket truck

Sunrise over Price Farm at Meadowview Research Farms, VA

Blight

Blight canker and sporulation on an American chestnut tree

Blight on a wild American chestnut tree at Frying Pan Moutain, NC

Blight on young chestnut trees

Chestnut blight canker

Maps of the American Chestnut Native Range

American chestnut native range map

American chestnut range map

Natural range map of the American chestnut tree

The American Chestnut Foundation Logos

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