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Learning While They Plant, Planting While They Learn Featured Image

Learning While They Plant, Planting While They Learn

On November 3, seventeen students of Dr. Jay Bolin’s conservation ecology class at Catawba College replanted the Frog Hollow Orchard outside of Salisbury, NC. Cody Fulk of The Land Trust […]
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Duane Waddell Chestnut Demonstration Orchard Featured Image

Duane Waddell Chestnut Demonstration Orchard

The Duane Waddell Chestnut Demonstration Orchard, located in Kingwood, West Virginia, was established in 2013 on abandoned farmland owned by the Preston County Board of Education. Each year, Preston High […]
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Chestnut Reindeer Sighting in Zürich, Switzerland Featured Image

Chestnut Reindeer Sighting in Zürich, Switzerland

Last fall, on my way back home from Eastern Europe, I stopped in Switzerland for meetings at the Swiss Federal Institute of Forests, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Birmensdorf […]
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Science Pub Event Involving TACF Generates a Great Turnout Featured Image

Science Pub Event Involving TACF Generates a Great Turnout

In its fall lineup, The Asheville Museum of Science’s (AMOS) Science Pub series included a presentation by TACF’s director of science, Dr. Jared Westbrook. The series is a free monthly […]
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Chestnut Orchard Tour at Pryor Farm in Western North Carolina Featured Image

Chestnut Orchard Tour at Pryor Farm in Western North Carolina

On a crisp autumn day in apple country near Hendersonville, NC, a group of 15 hearty “chestnutters” met former TACF geneticist and stalwart volunteer Paul Sisco for a tour of […]
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Good Times Had at TACF’s 8th Annual Restoration Celebration Featured Image

Good Times Had at TACF’s 8th Annual Restoration Celebration

At the end of the day, all the chestnuts were eaten and the children used up all the leaves and feathers creating nature weavings. Even the chestnut beer was gone!  […]
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SciTech Now: Saving the American Chestnut Tree Featured Image

SciTech Now: Saving the American Chestnut Tree

Dr. William Powell, professor at State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and TACF committee member, was recently interviewed on SciTech Now, a program on […]
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2017 Annual Fall Meeting Photos Featured Image

2017 Annual Fall Meeting Photos

This year’s annual meeting in South Portland, Maine on October 6-7, was a well-attended and hugely successful event. Because so much took place over the course of a few days, […]
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Chestnut Restoration Tour in Maine Featured Image

Chestnut Restoration Tour in Maine

TACF’s Annual Meeting in South Portland, Maine began on Thursday evening, October 5 with a traditional lobster bake on Peak’s Island and ended with a Saturday inland Maine chestnut restoration […]
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Louisville Nature Center Features Video About American Chestnut Featured Image

Louisville Nature Center Features Video About American Chestnut

The Louisville Nature Center (LNC) is a small nonprofit facility in Louisville, Kentucky.  It features a 41-acre urban forest with more than two miles of light hiking trails and a […]
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An Educational Planting in Londonderry, New Hampshire Featured Image

An Educational Planting in Londonderry, New Hampshire

In 1719 a group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian refugees fled violence in Northern Ireland and came to New England. They settled, in what today is, Londonderry, NH. The abundance of nut-bearing […]
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A Fun and Festive 10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival Featured Image

A Fun and Festive 10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival

This 10th annual chestnut festival was held Sunday, October 8 in Rowlesburg, WV, a tiny town on the scenic, big bend of the Cheat River. Afternoon activities included music, displays about […]
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