The Race to Save the American Chestnut

The Race to Save the American Chestnut

  American Chestnuts once numbered in the billions and ranged along the East coast from Maine to Mississippi. But a blight in the early 1900s pushed them back to a fraction of their historic range. Today, the American Chestnut is considered “functionally extinct”, but...

MA/RI-TACF Winter 2023 Quarterly Meeting

Winter Quarterly Board Meeting (Zoom only)Sunday, January 29th 2023Zoom Video Conferencing – Sunday, 01/29/2023 9AM – 1PMJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81509201125Meeting ID: 815 0920 1125Passcode: 1904Meeting Agenda DRAFT9AM –...

Chestnut Chat: Town Hall – Welcome Back!

After taking a break during the second half of 2022, Chestnut Chat is back! On Friday, January 20 at 11:30 AM (EST), we’ll launch our first Chat of the year.  This session will be presented as a “Town Hall” meeting, providing updates on plans for 2023 including the...
Gene Editing Could Revive a Nearly Lost Tree

Gene Editing Could Revive a Nearly Lost Tree

In a recent article by The Washington Post, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) in partnership with the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) continue the conversation around the transgenic breeding of the American...