In The News
TACF Maine Chapter member and University of New England (UNE) Professor, Dr. Thomas Klak is featured in this article about the work being done in Maine, particularly at UNE, to […]
TACF’s 34th Annual Fall Meeting in early October will take place in the charming New England town of South Portland, Maine, just in time for cooler temperatures and fall colors. There […]
On August 11, 2017, a ceremonial planting of six B3F3s and one American chestnut (from TACF board member, Jack Lamonica) was held at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) […]
Hello Chestnut Enthusiasts! I joined the TACF team on July 10 as the new Southern Regional Science Coordinator. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from the […]
The 8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration take place on Saturday, October 14 from 1:00-5:00PM at the Glenn C. Price Research Laboratory in Meadowview, Virginia. “The Celebration provides a rare opportunity […]
Growing up thirty minutes from the coast of California, I didn’t exactly come from a place where people knew what an American chestnut was, let alone the story of the […]
Students at the University of New England’s (UNE) Maine campus grew American chestnut hybrid seedlings this spring in the campus greenhouses. The work was supervised by Thomas Klak, Professor of Environmental […]
For the past three breeding seasons, TACF’s Meadowview staff has been performing controlled crosses between American chestnut backcross trees previously identified to have inherited resistance to chestnut blight or Phytophthora root rot from Chinese chestnut. Trees were selected for controlled crosses because their open pollinated progeny had the least severe chestnut blight cankers or root rot lesions as compared with the progeny of approximately 700 other mother trees that have been screened for resistance...
Watch this great news story from WABI, the CBS affiliate in Bangor, Maine, about why the state is a breeding ground for the American chestnut. Al Faust, the president of […]
TACF is offering a $200 reward for the largest American chestnut tree found in the trees native range in 2017. The tree should be healthy and the property owner must […]
In December of 2016, TACF renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). The singed memorandum promotes […]
Plant breeding is a numbers game. The more trees you have, the better your chances of finding one that has the desired combination of genes. Though we plant 150 trees […]