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At the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, a team of researchers are using the tools of biotechnology to produce fully American chestnut trees that successfully tolerate […]
More than 100 Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) students, faculty, and staff celebrated Arbor Day 2018 by helping plant more than 400 chestnut seedlings at EKU’s TACF seed orchard. In addition, Honors students in an experimental […]
A number of years ago, Cory Woods, a teacher at Blue Ridge School in Saint George, VA, reached out to TACF’s VA Chapter in an effort to get his students […]
On April 28, I attended the Native Plant Sale and Arbor Day Celebration at Montreat College, near Asheville, NC to talk about the American chestnut and its restoration, and to learn about other’s interests. I decided to “jack up” my conversations with […]
This past Arbor Day, April 27, 125 Kanawha County, WV students from Mary Ingles Elementary School and DuPont Middle School participated in an Arbor Day celebration at the Blue Creek Mining operation […]
This year, TACF is initiating a range-wide search for surviving American chestnuts in the forest. From Maine to Alabama, our chapters are working on plans to capture thousands of new sources of American chestnut never used in our breeding programs. New American chestnuts will be beneficial to TACF as it will help with...
On April 7, a snowy Saturday in northeastern Ohio, TACF’s Ohio Chapter hosted a Chestnut Growers’ Workshop at the Trumbull County Ohio State University (OSU) Extension Office along the shores […]
When American chestnut hybrids growing in an orchard contract the blight and are cut down, they will re-sprout and re-grow after this happens. So to promote a particular tree, encouraging […]
Among the things Maryland Chapter members enjoy – besides weeding in orchards when temperatures are in the 90s and deburring seeds with the tips of spikes from the burs imbedded […]
On April 5th, officials from the Maryland Chapter and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) marked another milestone in their long-standing partnership by dedicating the new Lyles backcross orchard. This […]
The Florida torreya is North America’s most endangered conifer, with less than one percent of its population remaining. Now, scientists are mounting a last-ditch effort to save the torreya and […]
Greenhouse construction at TACF’s Meadowview Research Farms in VA is in its final stages of development. The greenhouse was funded through the generosity of our 2017 Spring Appeal donors, to […]