In The News
In winter 2019 CBS News produced and aired a feature story about TACF and American chestnut restoration on their morning show, CBS This Morning. Crews from the network visited our […]
It is hard to overstate the value and cultural importance of the American chestnut tree for those who came before us. The native hardwood was once so ubiquitous, it has […]
On a cool and rainy fall day in mid-October, members of the Lyon Park Community in Arlington County planted a pair of American chestnuts, donated by the VA-TACF Chapter. These […]
The PA/NJ-TACF Chapter was happy to sponsor a hike in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania on October 6. This hike was part of the statewide “Walk in Penn’s […]
The 2019 HemlockFest (November 1-3) was a huge success for everyone involved! The event is a three-day outdoor music festival organized by the Lumpkin Coalition that includes camping and fun […]
The Associated Press released an article this week about the scientific research at SUNY's College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to develop a blight-tolerant American chestnut tree using genetic engineering. The article covers the purpose of the research, the government regulatory process, questions about introducing the tree into the wild, and the...
Several TACF scientists and collaborators published a paper on using genomics to speed up selection of the 1% most blight-resistant backcross trees in seed orchards at the foundation’s Meadowview Research […]
Over the last few years The American Chestnut Foundation’s (TACF) range-wide search for surviving American chestnut trees has led to the discovery of hundreds of the trees. From Maine to […]
On July 8, TACF staff and volunteers from the southwest branch of the TACF-VA Chapter braved the heat and humidity to inoculate over 3,300 B3F3 trees for this year’s small […]
Over four billion American chestnut trees have been killed as a result of an introduced pathogen, the chestnut blight. But recently, thanks to science and the hard work of TACF […]
Growing up I was fortunate enough to experience wild surviving American chestnut trees. I can recall with great clarity helping my grandfather pick nuts from their thorny burs as he […]
On May 15, “Chestnut Day” at the Butler Montessori School in Darnstown, Maryland, MD-TACF Chapter member Gary Carver led a program to plant American chestnut trees and talk with young […]