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Women in Science:  Stacy Clark Featured Image

Women in Science: Stacy Clark

The American Chestnut Foundation loves Women in Science, a new series by the USFS’s Southern Research Station.  This month, Stacy...
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Dalton State College continues American chestnut conservation efforts Featured Image

Dalton State College continues American chestnut conservation efforts

Dalton State College is the home to 10 new American chestnut trees after volunteers planted them along College Drive...
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Fighting a forgotten disease to return the American chestnut to grandeur Featured Image

Fighting a forgotten disease to return the American chestnut to grandeur

CLEMSON, South Carolina – In the eastern United States, wherever you see a pine or an oak tree today there...
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STEM Weaver Show Features The American Chestnut Foundation Breeding Program Featured Image

STEM Weaver Show Features The American Chestnut Foundation Breeding Program

Check out this NPR interview by David Thomas featuring Dr. Fred Hebard and Doug Levin of the Southwest Virginia Branch....
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NFF Supports Research with The American Chestnut Foundation Featured Image

NFF Supports Research with The American Chestnut Foundation

Preliminary Research to Assess Deer Exclusion Influence on Survival and Growth of American Chestnut Planted in George Washington National Forest...
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Howard County facility seeks volunteers to help chestnut trees come back Featured Image

Howard County facility seeks volunteers to help chestnut trees come back

Dave Gill recalls hearing his mother reminisce about gathering fallen chestnuts in woods near her childhood home for use in...
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The Allegheny Woodrat Featured Image

The Allegheny Woodrat

On an early November morning, I loaded two large coolers filled with over 10,000 chestnuts into the car and headed...
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Preliminary Research to Assess Deer Exclusion Influence on Survival and Growth of American Chestnut Planted in George Washington National Forest Featured Image

Preliminary Research to Assess Deer Exclusion Influence on Survival and Growth of American Chestnut Planted in George Washington National Forest

We all know the story by now: a little more than 100 years ago, American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was rapidly...
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Tennessee Chapter Meeting at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens Featured Image

Tennessee Chapter Meeting at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens

The Tennessee Chapter of TACF met March 11 at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, a winter wonderland of snow-covered tulip, hyacinth, and...
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No Winter Dormancy for PA/NJ Volunteers Featured Image

No Winter Dormancy for PA/NJ Volunteers

The forest may be sleeping but the volunteers of The American Chestnut Foundation continue to move our restoration mission forward...
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Chestnut Comeback Featured Image

Chestnut Comeback

The American chestnut was a dominant tree species in Wilkes County and elsewhere in the eastern U.S. before it...
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TACF is Proud to Support Ten Thousand Chestnut Challenge: Creating the Restoration Forest Featured Image

TACF is Proud to Support Ten Thousand Chestnut Challenge: Creating the Restoration Forest

A blight-resistant American chestnut tree.  The next step. SUNY-ESF is working in collaboration with The American Chestnut Foundation to restore...
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