VA-Informational Meeting about Identifying LSAs
American Chestnuts have not all been reduced to small bushes by the blight. There are large trees in the woods, some of which have more resistance than others. Clint Morse and the Virginia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation want to recruit you to bring the...
New England Grafting Workshop
Join us for a Chestnut grafting workshop at the TACF New England Regional office on March 14th. This day-long event will include chestnut grafting method demonstrations, practice, and discussion, with the goal of developing grafting skills and relationships to...
Dentatabase Help Desk Hour
This is an open, drop-in support session for anyone using Dentatabase. Participants are welcome to bring specific questions about their orchards, data entry, record updates, or workflows discussed in recent trainings. The session is informal and designed to provide...
Dentatabase Help Desk Hour
This is an open, drop-in support session for anyone using Dentatabase. Participants are welcome to bring specific questions about their orchards, data entry, record updates, or workflows discussed in recent trainings. The session is informal and designed to provide...
Dentatabase Training
This training provides an overview of TACF’s Dentatabase, where we track orchards and trees across the range. This training is designed for chapter leaders, volunteers, and partner organizations who want to learn how to interact with Dentatabase for tree and...
Dentatabase Training
This training provides an overview of TACF’s Dentatabase, where we track orchards and trees across the range. This training is designed for chapter leaders, volunteers, and partner organizations who want to learn how to interact with Dentatabase for tree and...
Genomics Offers a Faster Path to Restoring the American Chestnut
For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been devastated by an invasive fungal disease that killed billions of trees in the early 1900s. A new study published in Science shows that modern genomic...
Major New TACF Paper Published in Science
A New Era in Conservation: Healthy Genomes Accelerate the Next 30 Years of American Chestnut Restoration The American Chestnut Foundation adopts recurrent genomic selection as the long-term engine of species restoration [Asheville, NC] — A major new paper...