In The News
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 […]
Chestnut Supporters Unite! Kevin Stankiewicz with the Pittsburg Post-Gazette wrote a great article this week on the current progress and restoration of the American chestnut. Both Kim Steiner and Sara […]
By the 1950s, two non-native pathogens had killed almost all American chestnut trees. “There’s a lot of interest in breeding a chestnut that looks like American chestnut, but has the […]
The first of multiple unsuccessful efforts to restore the American chestnut tree began in the 1920s, barely two decades after the tree was decimated by an invasive fungus. In the […]
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 […]