News from TACF
TACF is offering a $200 reward for the largest American chestnut tree found in the trees native range in 2017....
In December of 2016, TACF renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of...
Plant breeding is a numbers game. The more trees you have, the better your chances of finding one that has...
Chestnut Supporters Unite! Kevin Stankiewicz with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette wrote a great article this week on the current progress and...
By the 1950s, two non-native pathogens had killed almost all American chestnut trees. “There’s a lot of interest in breeding...
The first of multiple unsuccessful efforts to restore the American chestnut tree began in the 1920s, barely two decades after...
Outdoor Education staff and students at Green Chimneys’ Clearpool Campusin Carmel, NY got their hands dirty – as they often do...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been...
On April 21 and 25, high school students at the Tidioute Community Charter School in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, dug into forest...
National Arbor Day, April 28, was celebrated in TN by certifying the Governor’s Residence as a level 2 arboretum by...
On a sunny Sunday morning in April, fourteen volunteers showed up to help ME-TACF orchard manager Larry Totten and Maine...
Much of conservation work is a long-term effort requiring forethought and patience. It also depends on one generation inspiring the...