In The News
Students from the Center for Technology, Essex – the Essex Junction, VT technical high school, are participating in American chestnut restoration. Their natural resources teacher, Brian Japp, has partnered with […]
The Hermitage of the Holy Cross is an English-speaking monastery under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in the Diocese of Eastern America and New York. Holy […]
Students from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC planted 160 chestnuts at the campus on November 29 after delays due to cold weather and the first dusting of snow in […]
Champion, written by Sally M. Walker, is The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree as the subtitle states. First published in 2018, the book is written in a narrative […]
“To do something that has never been done before, to bring a species back from oblivion, is the result of research and teamwork by partners who want to restore the […]
This news article out of central New Jersey explains the efforts being made in that area to restore the American chestnut. The New Hopewell Environmental Commission has teamed up with […]
Two new studies on the environmental impact of transgenic American chestnut trees provide evidence that the trees have no harmful effects on germinating seeds, beneficial fungi, or larval frogs that […]
A university campus in West Virginia is doing its part to help bring back the American chestnut tree. In mid-October, West Liberty University held a ceremonial tree planting to mark the […]
On April 22, 2016, The American Chestnut Regional Seed Orchard on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) was launched, in collaboration with the KY-TACF Chapter. The purpose of the […]
Thanks to members like you we not only met the $50,000 challenge grant from the Ballyshannon Fund in Charlottesville, VA, we exceeded it! The challenge grant leveraged a total of […]
Boxerwood is a nonprofit nature center and woodland garden in Lexington, VA whose mission is to “educate and inspire people of all ages to become environmentally responsible stewards of the […]
The 11th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival took place Sunday, October 7 in Rowlesburg, drawing a good crowd and some media attention as well. The purpose of the festival is […]