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TACF’s Mid-Atlantic “Volunteer of the Year” is Robert Sypolt from WV
At TACF's annual meeting held October 17-20, 2019 at the Wyndham Hotel in Gettysburg, PA, Robert Sypolt was selected as the Mid-Atlantic region Volunteer of the Year.
Rainelle, WV United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church in Rainelle, WV (Greenbrier County) is reported to be the largest structure in the world built entirely of American chestnut lumber. The church, completed in 1914 (pre-chestnut blight), was built by workers of the Meadow River Lumber...
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WV chapter work day at the Clements Tree Nursery in Mason County
The state tree nursery in Mason County, WV has two chestnut orchards. The older orchard was planted in the mid-1970s from nuts from large, surviving American chestnuts in the mid-Atlantic region. Nuts from the 1970's orchard were used to initiate a second orchard in...
WV chapter potting chestnuts
The group at the Meadowview farm sent about 350 beautifully packaged germinating chestnuts in mid-March. A group of a dozen volunteers from the WV chapter gathered at the Plant and Soil Sciences greenhouse on the campus of West Virginia University to pot the nuts. ...
Chestnut seedlings headed to the Boy Scout Camp at Summit Bechtel Reserve in WV
Sam Muncy, treasurer of the WV chapter, loaded up 100 chestnut seedlings from the West Virginia University greenhouse for planting at the 10,000 acre national Boy Scout Camp at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in Fayette/Raleigh Counties, WV.
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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.
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Let’s keep walking the trail Rex helped blaze.
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