by Ken Darnell | Aug 27, 2021 | eSprout
Throughout the summer, KY-TACF Chapter members and volunteers have searched for wild-type American chestnut trees in the Red River Gorge Geological Area of Daniel Boone National Forest, an area known to have a number of surviving American chestnuts. Volunteers seek to...
by Jack Swatt | Aug 26, 2021
Come visit the CT-TACF Chapter’s exhibit booth in the Discovery Center at the 2021 Durham Fair in Durham, CT from Thursday, September 23 through Sunday, September 26. We will be informing the public about our work to restore the American chestnut to the forests...
by Norm Reid | Aug 23, 2021
The Virginia TACF Board and General Membership Meeting will be held on October 23. It will be followed by a tour of Lesesne State Forest.
by Jules Smith | Aug 16, 2021 | eSprout, External News
This August 2021 article published by the Town Topics Newspaper of Princeton, New Jersey, chronicles the history and re-emergence of American chestnut trees in various NJ townships, including a second generation hybrid sapling planted at Mapleton Preserve in Kingston....
by Jules Smith | Aug 2, 2021 | External News
In the summer of 2021, Paul Kuehnel of York Daily News visited with TACF Director of Restoration, Sara Fitzsimmons, and Jay Breneman to capture a series of photos. The photos depict three tree species threatened by non-native pests and pathogens, American chestnut,...
by Yvonne Federowicz | Jul 30, 2021
Our Winter Quarterly Board Meeting on Saturday, January 30th 2021 will be held via Zoom. Please contact Jamie Donalds with suggestions for the agenda.
by Florian Carle | Jul 26, 2021
Meet the CT Chapter of TACF at the The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 111th Plant Science Day! Members of the TACF Connecticut Chapter will be on plot 29, near wild Chestnuts From Turkey, to answer all your chestnut-related questions and show you the...
by TACF | Jul 19, 2021 | eSprout
In April of 2021, former TACF Regional Science Coordinator Paul Sisco and a volunteer crew participated in a workday at the backcross chestnut orchard located at Lioncrest, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC. The ground where the trees are planted is known to contain...
by Jules Smith | Jul 16, 2021 | eSprout
Once in a blue moon, I like to gift an extra seedling or two to special friends or major donors when there are extra available from TACF’s Meadowview Research Farms. A long-time friend and former colleague at The Nature Conservancy, Hallie, was the recipient of such a...
