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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 […]
It is the Fourth of July as I write this article about George Washington Bush and the two largest American chestnut trees in North America. He was a free black […]
The Drake Outdoor Leadership Club (DOLC) is an organization at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa whose mission is to allow students the opportunity to explore the outdoors and nature […]
On March 23, 2019, a long-dreamed-of and long-planned-for day finally arrived – the opening of the Children’s Garden at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens. Designated the Alice […]
On April 27, 2019, Cian Evans and Doug Gillis of the Carolinas Chapter greeted folks visiting a TACF display at the Montreat Native Plant Sale in Montreat, NC to talk […]
This article by the U.S. Forest Service stresses the ecological role American chestnut played in the forest and the importance of its return. The disappearance of the chestnut launched a profound change in the structure and composition of eastern forests. Now, because of scientific advancements and pure determination by those of us passionate...
Have you taken a photograph that should be highlighted on the cover of TACF’s award-winning Chestnut magazine? We want to see it! Send us your best chestnut-themed photo(s) by September […]
On February 26 and March 7, volunteers from the Southwest branch of the VA-TACF Chapter came out to the Price Research Farm in Meadowview, VA to help with spring seed […]