In The News
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 […]
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 […]