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$200 Reward for the Largest American Chestnut Tree Featured Image

$200 Reward for the Largest American Chestnut Tree

TACF is offering a $200 reward for the largest American chestnut tree found in the trees native range in 2017....
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Memorandum of Understanding Benefits Species and Ecosystems Featured Image

Memorandum of Understanding Benefits Species and Ecosystems

In December of 2016, TACF renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of...
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Spare Seedlings Improve the Breeding Program in Maryland Featured Image

Spare Seedlings Improve the Breeding Program in Maryland

Plant breeding is a numbers game. The more trees you have, the better your chances of finding one that has...
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Should more public money be spent on bringing back the American chestnut tree? Featured Image

Should more public money be spent on bringing back the American chestnut tree?

Chestnut Supporters Unite! Kevin Stankiewicz with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette wrote a great article this week on the current progress and...
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American Chestnuts in the Field – Out of the Nursery, Into the Wild Featured Image

American Chestnuts in the Field – Out of the Nursery, Into the Wild

By the 1950s, two non-native pathogens had killed almost all American chestnut trees. “There’s a lot of interest in breeding...
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Decades-long American chestnut restoration efforts show progress Featured Image

Decades-long American chestnut restoration efforts show progress

The first of multiple unsuccessful efforts to restore the American chestnut tree began in the 1920s, barely two decades after...
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Restoring American Chestnut Tree Population Featured Image

Restoring American Chestnut Tree Population

Outdoor Education staff and students at Green Chimneys’ Clearpool Campusin Carmel, NY got their hands dirty – as they often do...
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American chestnut rescue will succeed, but slower than expected Featured Image

American chestnut rescue will succeed, but slower than expected

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been...
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Allegheny National Forest Planting Featured Image

Allegheny National Forest Planting

On April 21 and 25, high school students at the Tidioute Community Charter School in Tidioute, Pennsylvania, dug into forest...
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Ceremonial Planting at TN Governor’s Residence Featured Image

Ceremonial Planting at TN Governor’s Residence

National Arbor Day, April 28, was celebrated in TN by certifying the Governor’s Residence as a level 2 arboretum by...
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Five Years and 6,000 Seeds Later Featured Image

Five Years and 6,000 Seeds Later

On a sunny Sunday morning in April, fourteen volunteers showed up to help ME-TACF orchard manager Larry Totten and Maine...
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Passing the Baton of Conservation Featured Image

Passing the Baton of Conservation

Much of conservation work is a long-term effort requiring forethought and patience. It also depends on one generation inspiring the...
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