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Coal Creek Watershed Foundation Plants Chestnut Seedlings for Arbor Day
Congratulations to the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation for completing their 6th annual Arbor Day event last week with the U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and the Tennessee Mining Association. The Arbor Day 2014 planting event was held on former abandoned mine land...
Cumberland Co. – Large Surviving American (LSA) Chestnut Discovered
Don Hazel recently discovered a large surviving American (LSA) chestnut a few miles from Crossville, TN. This tree was over 50 ft. tall and had a dbh of ca 10 inches. It was growing at an elevation over 2000 ft in woods dominated by oak trees. Evidence in the tree...
Dr. Greg Weaver Honored for Volunteer Services
Several TN Chapter members presented Dr. Greg Weaver with the TACF Volunteer Services award at his Lieper's Fork farm on Sunday, December 8. In addition to presenting him the award and catching up with him and his wife, Paula, the group also toured his chestnut...
Tennessee Magazine Features Chestnut Article
Check out this great article featuring Greg Weaver's journey to help restore the American chestnut. King of the Forest: Chestnut trees face extinction unless measures are taken - The Tennessee Magazine (January 2014).
New Large Surviving American (LSA) Chestnut Found in Cannon Co.
TN Chapter members Vicki Turner, Jack Torkelson, and Joe Schibig met up with Mark Vance in Cannon County, TN on Dec. 4 to see a newly discovered large surviving American (LSA) chestnut tree. The weather was great, and Mark took the group, which also included Joe...
An Update On Our Ongoing Work at the Tennessee Tech TACF Backcross Orchard
The orchard was planted in 2005 using the direct seed method. And as you remember, we inoculated all of the trees in the orchard in 2010 as part of the blight-resistance screening. We evaluated blight cankers and rated the trees on their American morphological...
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In the mid 1800s, two American Chestnuts were planted in what is now Tumwater, WA. Being so far outside the native range (and being across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains), they escaped the blight fungus that killed the chestnuts in their native Appalachian range. These two trees are amazing and can give you a sense of the size and beauty of American Chesnut trees regularly reached before the blight. Getting to sit under the shade of two mature chestnut trees was a true pleasure and one that not many have experienced.
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I'd plant the crap out of them if I lived out there
It’s so heartbreaking that they aren’t still abundant.
