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Check out this great article by Cici Zhang at ScienceLine about the two sophisticated techniques that could rescue the beloved American chestnut tree. TACF thanks its partners, Board members, and […]
The LandTrust for Central North Carolina has announced a new youth initiative aimed at sponsoring outdoors activities and conservation education. In a news release, the Land Trust said the program — called […]
At 87, E.O. Wilson has lost none of his intellectual rigor. His sentences are long, rolling, full of enough parentheticals to make Proust smile, and delivered in a wonderfully soothing, […]
Gary Carver, TACF’s Maryland chapter president, won second place for his “Chestnut Sided Nuthatches” sculpture at this year’s Frederick County Art Association Members Exhibit. If you live in the area, […]
Clemson forestry students visited Dr. Joe James at Chestnut Return Farm in Upstate South Carolina. This story covers everything from the blight to Phytophthora cinnamomi, the deadly root rot that […]
Minnesota Public Radio interviews TACF founding President Phil Rutter and current President and CEO Lisa Thomson in a recent story covering the current research and hybridization of the American chestnut. […]
UNE students plant American chestnut trees to bring back the decimated species…Read More
More than 50 years after nearly being wiped out in eastern U.S. forests by a deadly imported fungus, the American chestnut may be on the comeback trail. American Chestnut Foundation […]
Glen Rea and Al Faust speak with The Banger Daily News in “Revival of forest giant: Mainers work to bring back American chestnut.” Read the full story here»