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Trumbull County, located in the northeast corner of Ohio, is located in the native range of the American chestnut tree. Earlier this spring, a great crew from the U.S. Army […]
TACF volunteers in the southern region have been busy with some early spring plantings. On March 18, volunteers from Georgia and Tennessee banded together to add plantings to the Phytophthora orchard […]
In the quest to create a population of blight resistant American chestnut trees through backcross breeding, large numbers of trees have been planted and screened for resistance to chestnut blight. […]
A student at the University of New England (UNE) recently wrote a brief story about all the activities taking place on campus that are part of the wider restoration project involving the American chestnut. Read about this amazing educational initiative that's allowing students in the Environmental Studies Department at UNE to gain hands-on research and restoration...
The American Chestnut Foundation loves Women in Science, a new series by the USFS’s Southern Research Station. This month, Stacy Clark is featured for her amazing research in hardwood forests […]
Dalton State College is the home to 10 new American chestnut trees after volunteers planted them along College Drive last week. For several years, employees at Dalton State have been involved in efforts to reintroduce a blight-resistant American chestnut tree to the area. The American chestnut was once an important resource for people...
CLEMSON, South Carolina – In the eastern United States, wherever you see a pine or an oak tree today there likely was a chestnut tree in the 19th century. American […]
Check out this NPR interview by David Thomas featuring Dr. Fred Hebard and Doug Levin of the Southwest Virginia Branch.
Preliminary Research to Assess Deer Exclusion Influence on Survival and Growth of American Chestnut Planted in George Washington National Forest According to Samantha Bowers, “The expected results of this research […]
Dave Gill recalls hearing his mother reminisce about gathering fallen chestnuts in woods near her childhood home for use in stuffing at Thanksgiving. That was in the 1920s, when the […]
On an early November morning, I loaded two large coolers filled with over 10,000 chestnuts into the car and headed out to meet with Greg Turner of the Pennsylvania Game of […]
We all know the story by now: a little more than 100 years ago, American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was rapidly removed as an overstory tree throughout the eastern United Sates […]