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Volunteer Now!
Current Opportunities to Volunteer! Working with the Public Plantings are planned for Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna on May 3 and at Mount Vernon at a date in the spring to be determined. We are looking for a few volunteers to help with (a) planting the...
Meet the Intern: Jennifer Santoro
Jennifer Santoro, a graduate student at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, is joining the Virginia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation as an intern this summer. Based out of the Marshall office, Jennifer hopes to participate in the...
Wild Surviving Chestnut Found in Prince William Forest Park
Finding large, wild, surviving American chestnuts is always exciting, but to find a healthy one below the fall line in Virginia is both exciting and special. But there it is, right next to a trail in Prince William Forest Park. Prince William Forest Park preserves...
Video on Jennifer Santoro’s Duke University Stanback Internship
VA TACF intern Jennifer A. Santoro, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Master of Forestry & Master of Environmental Management Candidate, produced this brief video explaining her work with VA TACF and why she finds it so rewarding....
Successful Blue Ridge Heritage Planting – May 28
Blue Ridge Heritage, Inc. (BRHI), in partnership with The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is planting native American chestnuts on the property BRHI purchased last year (in the Rocky Knob area of the Blue Ridge Parkway). These plantings are test sites, allowing...
Successful Planting April 4 at Pound, VA
Ten volunteers recruited by the Southwest Virginia Branch helped plant 625 chestnut seeds as part of the Conservation Innovation Grant progeny test at the Red Onion Mine site near Pound, Virginia. The day started dry and cool but a cold front blew in during the...
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The amazing Bette Midler on why she started the New York Restoration Project--and at the 3:15 mark, watch her talk about and plant a chestnut!
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What a wonderful person ! Go Bette !!!!
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The American Chestnut Foundation’s (TACF) Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Michael Goergen has been appointed as the organization’s new President & CEO and will begin in mid-September 2025. He will succeed interim President & CEO Bruce Levine.
A strategic executive with more than 25 years of leadership in the forest products and climate sectors, Michael has driven innovation, sustainability, and transformative partnerships throughout his career.
To learn more about him, visit tacf.org/michael-goergen-named-president-ceo-of-the-american-chestnut-foundation/
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Lucinda’s got a tree to introduce you to 🌳👋
Meet even more trees at tacf.org/meet-the-trees/
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This is D2-19-136 if you'd like to view it on our webpage!
Great video, keep them coming.
Thanks. I have one from OIKOS that was advertised as 95% American. Here's the trunk -- alittle blight on the lowest branch at left, but that's been yrs ago and has healed over. It's been putting out male pollen racemes, but they don't open (become fuzzy) -- don't know why.
Reminder! TACF's 2025 American Chestnut Photo Contest is going on now, with a new, extended deadline!
The first-place winner will have their photo featured on the cover of a future issue of Chestnut magazine and receive a one-year TACF membership, along with a T-shirt and hat. The second-place winner will receive a T-shirt and sticker, and the third-place winner will receive a sticker. All winners will be recognized in a future issue of Chestnut.
Visit tacf.org/2025-photo-contest/ for all the details.
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who has chestnut seeds? i want to grow some.
Celebrate the legacy of Rex Mann—forester, storyteller, and passionate champion for the American chestnut—with this limited edition Leave Tracks t-shirt.
Rex devoted his life to restoring forests and inspiring others to care for the land. Now, you can honor his memory and help carry his mission forward.
🌳 100% of the proceeds from every shirt go to The American Chestnut Foundation (THANK YOU!), supporting the work Rex believed in so deeply.
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Let’s keep walking the trail Rex helped blaze.
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