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MA/RI Chapter Experiencing Growing Partnerships with Educational Institutions Featured Image

MA/RI Chapter Experiencing Growing Partnerships with Educational Institutions

In February 2018 our chapter received an inquiry from Lisa Collins, Environmental Science Teacher at Norfolk County Agricultural High School...
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Small Stem Assays Could be the Screening Tool of the Future Featured Image

Small Stem Assays Could be the Screening Tool of the Future

Whether you’re working on something operational, like planting a backcross orchard, or something new and experimental, like research on small...
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Meeting of the Southern Region Minds at Berry College Featured Image

Meeting of the Southern Region Minds at Berry College

On July 27, a group of chestnut researchers, Georgia and Tennessee Chapter members, and TACF staff convened at Berry College in Rome, Georgia....
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Working to Restore the American Chestnut Featured Image

Working to Restore the American Chestnut

TACF’s Director of Restoration, Sara Fitzsimmons, had an article published recently about the work TACF is doing to restore the...
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Restoring an American Giant in Pittsfield, MA Featured Image

Restoring an American Giant in Pittsfield, MA

TACF’s MA/RI Chapter is getting media attention for their work at the Robert J. Presutti Chestnut Orchard in Pittsfield, MA. The...
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WV Chapter Hike to Locate American Chestnut Trees Featured Image

WV Chapter Hike to Locate American Chestnut Trees

On May 31, TACF’s Mid-Atlantic Science Coordinator, Tom Saielli, and Adam Polinski of the Coopers Rock Foundation led the inaugural WV Chapter hike to find...
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Saving the American chestnut, featured on SciTech Now Featured Image

Saving the American chestnut, featured on SciTech Now

Dr. William Powell, TACF committee member and Co-Director of the American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project at the State University...
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TACF’s OH Chapter Busy with Spring Plantings Featured Image

TACF’s OH Chapter Busy with Spring Plantings

Members and volunteers in the OH Chapter kicked off spring by diving into some plantings in their region. The first...
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TreeSnap: A Fun Tool to Incorporate into Recreational Activities Featured Image

TreeSnap: A Fun Tool to Incorporate into Recreational Activities

What were your Memorial Day weekend plans this year? Many of us likely participated in activities such as hiking,...
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Enter to Win TACF’s 2018 Chestnut Photo Contest Featured Image

Enter to Win TACF’s 2018 Chestnut Photo Contest

Send your best chestnut-related photos to TACF. The winning photo will be featured on an upcoming cover of Chestnut magazine...
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Berry-led research on blight-resistant chestnut trees being developed in north Georgia Featured Image

Berry-led research on blight-resistant chestnut trees being developed in north Georgia

Marty Cipollini, TACF’s GA-Chapter science coordinator and professor of biology at Berry College in Rome, GA is working diligently...
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We nearly killed off these trees. But biotech can bring them back. Featured Image

We nearly killed off these trees. But biotech can bring them back.

At the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) in Syracuse, a team of researchers are using the tools of...
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