by Jack Swatt | Sep 4, 2021
The Manchester Land Conservation Trust GCO was planted back in the spring, but due to lack of fencing supplies due to COVID, and a thunderstorm bringing a quick ending to our spring planting day, installation of the fencing was put off to a later time. Now that we...
by Jules Smith | Aug 31, 2021 | eSprout
On August 24-25, 2021 ME-TACF Chapter Vice President Tom Klak, and VT/NH-TACF Chapter President Doug McLane, once again combined efforts to move American chestnut restoration forward. They checked the condition of hundreds of chestnut flowers at Cape Elizabeth, ME...
by Jules Smith | Aug 31, 2021 | eSprout, External News
This article in the Sun Journal revisits the 114-foot tall American chestnut tree in Hebron, Maine. The tree is considered to be the largest surviving American chestnut in the state of Maine, and one of the largest in the country. The reason for its blight-resistance...
by Jack Swatt | Aug 31, 2021 | eSprout
In July 2021, the CT-TACF Chapter held several Chestnut Hikes to search for new sources of American chestnut germplasm. The CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection had previously performed habitat management harvests at many parcels of state-owned land...
by Jules Smith | Aug 31, 2021
Join us on Friday, September 17 at 11:30 AM (EDT) for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat. Charles David Ray, associate professor of ecosystem science and management at Penn State University, will discuss identification and properties of chestnut wood. Participants can join...
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,...
