In The News
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Tennessee Chapter of TACF met March 11 at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, a winter wonderland of snow-covered tulip, hyacinth, and redbud blossoms. Ed Schwartzman, Regional Science Coordinator, and Hill Craddock, […]
The forest may be sleeping but the volunteers of The American Chestnut Foundation continue to move our restoration mission forward through the long winter months. Just in the PA/NJ Chapter […]
The American chestnut was a dominant tree species in Wilkes County and elsewhere in the eastern U.S. before it was decimated by a blight in the early 1900s. About 50 […]