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Evaluating Chestnuts in Greg’s Orchard for Blight Resistance and Phenotype
Friends, On June 3, 2013, Dr. Hill Craddock and his UTC crew traveled to Greg Weaver's orchard in Williamson County, TN to grade blight resistance and assess for American chestnut physical characteristics on Greg's chestnut trees. The trees had been inoculated in June...
Trees in the UTC Nursery
The trees in the UTC nursery are growing very well this season. There are currently about 2,000 trees growing in 2-gallon containers. Nuts were planted directly into the containers in February 2013. UTC student, Anash Parmar, who is 5' 4" tall, has been helping take...
Chestnuts Gettin’ It On
Volunteers from the Tennessee Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation are contributing in a significant way to the restoration of Castanea dentata to the southern Appalachian forest. This video "Chestnuts Gettin' It On" illustrates the reproductive process of how...
AC Trail on the Cumberland Plateau
Tom Saielli, TACF Southern Regional Coordinator, and Larry Taylor, TN-TACF member, inspect a trial planting of American chestnut trees in a light gap at the Eagle Point Railroad in preparation for a large B3F3 progeny test on this beautiful Cumberland Plateau location.
TACF Southern Regional Meeting at Bridgestone
TACF members from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee met in May at the Bridgestone Warren Plant near Morrison, TN.
TN Chapter Meeting at Volunteer State Community College
Chapters members met in the spring to catch up on the science and policy of TACF's program's and, of course, to plant a few trees.
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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.
