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Over the years, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) has grown from a small and somewhat relaxed organization, into a relatively...
The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) was invited to participate in McCullough Fellows program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville (UNCA)....
Abraham Lincoln, the rail splitter, who spent his early years growing up in Kentucky, is also well known in the...
The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology is generating and annotating a reference genome for the American chestnut tree in a project...
This program was a great success and has already sold out. Look for this opportunity again in February 2019. Beginning this...
Prior to joining TACF, David worked at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (UNC-Asheville) in various roles in the...
TACF is a Living Wage Employer certified through nonprofit Just Economics. In 2018, the living wage rate in Western North...
At the turn of the 20th century, the Eastern United States was covered in billions of chestnut trees. In some...
On November 3, seventeen students of Dr. Jay Bolin’s conservation ecology class at Catawba College replanted the Frog Hollow Orchard...
The Duane Waddell Chestnut Demonstration Orchard, located in Kingwood, West Virginia, was established in 2013 on abandoned farmland owned by...
Last fall, on my way back home from Eastern Europe, I stopped in Switzerland for meetings at the Swiss Federal...
In its fall lineup, The Asheville Museum of Science’s (AMOS) Science Pub series included a presentation by TACF’s director of...