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Local Woodworker Supports American Chestnut Restoration
Perkinsville, VT woodworker, Tom Fontaine, recently made a significant contribution toward restoring the American chestnut tree to New England forests. He made a rocking chair from rare American chestnut wood that came from a large chestnut tree in Berlin, VT that...
American Chestnut Tree Planting in Ethan Allen Park, Burlington
Board member and UVM faculty member Gary Hawley teamed up to plant 36 American chestnut trees in Burlington, VT's Ethan Allen Park. Read the write-up from Burlington Parks and Recreation here.
Chestnut restoration highlighted on NHPR’s The Exchange
What Will it Take to Restore the American Chestnut Tree? Listen here.
Chestnut restoration project in Concord (NH) Monitor
Read the Concord Monitor article on the transgenic chestnut project
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What an incredible tree the American chestnut was! As The American Chestnut Foundations continues its decades-long work to restore this species, we welcome you to join the cause!
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They can bring back a dead wolf from hundreds of years ago but they won’t bring back something useful like the American chestnut
Thank NYC, destroyed not only the tree, but a way of life 😢
If it's extinct it not possible to bring back
Join us on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat.
Special guests Duane McKenna and Michael Charles will discuss beetle evolution and the rediscovery of a lost species, the greater chestnut weevil.
Visit tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-beetle-evolution-greater-chestnut-weevil/ to learn more and register.
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Huge thanks to our amazing Bonner Scholars, Maddy, our dedicated Farm Assistant, and Gabbie, our creative Social Media Intern for all their hard work this semester! We’re so grateful for their contributions and can’t wait to welcome them back in August for another season of collaboration.
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Join us on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat.
Special guests Duane McKenna and Michael Charles will discuss beetle evolution and the rediscovery of a lost species, the greater chestnut weevil.
Visit tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-beetle-evolution-greater-chestnut-weevil/ to learn more and register.
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Why don't they make a weevil that can't have babies? And put them in the wild? So it'll past it to overs so they'll die out!!!
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