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...

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...

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 members from Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee met in May at the Bridgestone Warren Plant near Morrison, TN.

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.