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Outdoor Education staff and students at Green Chimneys’ Clearpool Campusin Carmel, NY got their hands dirty – as they often do – with a hands-on lesson in sustainability and forestry. In […]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by an introduced disease — Chestnut blight, […]
On April 21 and 25, high school students at the Tidioute Community Charter School in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, dug into forest research by volunteering to plant backcross American chestnut seedlings on […]
National Arbor Day, April 28, was celebrated in TN by certifying the Governor’s Residence as a level 2 arboretum by the TN Urban Forest Council. A level 2 arboretum requires 60 […]
On a sunny Sunday morning in April, fourteen volunteers showed up to help ME-TACF orchard manager Larry Totten and Maine Chapter Board members plant 600 seeds in our chestnut seed […]
Much of conservation work is a long-term effort requiring forethought and patience. It also depends on one generation inspiring the next to take up the torch and carry the dream […]
TACF’s Maryland Chapter is making great strides in its backcross breeding program, and has established two seed orchards with two excellent partner organizations. One orchard is on land belonging to the […]
Send your best chestnut-related photos to TACF. The winning photo will be featured on an upcoming cover of Chestnut magazine and the winning photographer will receive a complimentary one-year membership. […]
Ralph Billow, a former longtime employee at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums in Fremont, OH, was recently honored at an American chestnut planting at Spiegel Grove – the […]
Most of the U.S. population is too young to have ever seen the grandeur of the American chestnut in the forests of southern Ohio and throughout the Appalachian mountains. These […]
On Arbor Day in April, Volunteers in Hamilton, Ohio planted dozens of native trees in the city. Some of the plantings were made possible using a grant from the Ohio […]
The functionally extinct American chestnut tree is making a comeback in the Virginia Piedmont. A small group of nature-minded individuals, including TACF’s Virginia Chapter president Catherine Mayes, gathered recently in […]