by Jules Smith | Aug 15, 2018 | eSprout
On July 27, a group of chestnut researchers, Georgia and Tennessee Chapter members, and TACF staff convened at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. The purpose was to discuss southern germplasm conservation strategies, vegetative propagation of American chestnuts, and...
by Jim Curtis | Aug 15, 2018
The Maryland Chapter will have a booth and speaker at the Appalachian Festival on September 15th at Frostburg State University. Our Board member, Dean Yap, will speak at 2 PM. For more information click here.
by Jim Curtis | Aug 15, 2018
The Maryland Chapter will have a booth and speaker at the Appalachian Festival on September 15th at Frostburg State University. Our Board member, Dean Yap, will speak at 2 PM. For more information click here.
by Kathy Desjardin | Aug 5, 2018
by Kathy Desjardin | Aug 5, 2018
by Jules Smith | Aug 3, 2018 | External News
TACF’s Director of Restoration, Sara Fitzsimmons, had an article published recently about the work TACF is doing to restore the American chestnut tree. The article was requested by The Rewilding Institute, an organization whose mission is to “explore and...
by Jules Smith | Aug 2, 2018 | External News
TACF’s MA/RI Chapter is getting media attention for their work at the Robert J. Presutti Chestnut Orchard in Pittsfield, MA. The orchard, in Springside Park, was started in 2014 and occupies about 1.5 acres of meadowland in the park’s interior. It contains 3,000...
by Jean Najjar | Jul 17, 2018
Mark your calendars for October 7, when Pennsylvanians across the state will walk to celebrate Penn’s Woods! Rural, urban, and suburban woods, state and national forests and parks, municipal watersheds, conserved areas, private lands and industries in the state’s 67...
by Jean Najjar | Jul 17, 2018
Mark your calendars for October 7, when Pennsylvanians across the state will walk to celebrate Penn’s Woods! Rural, urban, and suburban woods, state and national forests and parks, municipal watersheds, conserved areas, private lands and industries in the state’s 67...
by Jules Smith | Jul 16, 2018 | eSprout
On May 31, TACF’s Mid-Atlantic Science Coordinator, Tom Saielli, and Adam Polinski of the Coopers Rock Foundation led the inaugural WV Chapter hike to find American chestnuts at Coopers Rock State Forest in Preston County. Polinski was the hike leader, knowing...