Global Information Lookup Global Information

The American Chestnut Foundation information


The American Chestnut Foundation
AbbreviationTACF
Named afterAmerican Chestnut tree
Board of Directors Chair
Brian C. McCarthy
Main organ
Chestnut magazine (2015-present)
The Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation (1985-2015)
Websitewww.tacf.org
Experimental trials at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Massachusetts
Chestnut blight affecting a young American chestnut

The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is a nonprofit American organization dedicated to breeding a blight-resistant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) tree and the reintroduction of this tree to the forests of the Eastern United States.

and 24 Related for: The American Chestnut Foundation information

Request time (Page generated in 1.0739 seconds.)

American chestnut

Last Update:

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America. As is true of all...

Word Count : 9906

The American Chestnut Foundation

Last Update:

The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is a nonprofit American organization dedicated to breeding a blight-resistant American chestnut (Castanea dentata)...

Word Count : 926

Chestnut blight

Last Update:

repopulate chestnut trees. Surviving American chestnut trees are being bred for resistance to the blight, notably by The American Chestnut Foundation, which...

Word Count : 4497

Darling 58

Last Update:

produce chestnuts, and multiply to restore the American chestnut tree to the forests of North America. While The American Chestnut Foundation discontinued...

Word Count : 1565

Chestnut

Last Update:

regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Chestnut trees are of moderate growth rate (for the Chinese chestnut tree) to fast-growing for American and European...

Word Count : 10642

Prodigal Summer

Last Update:

decades. In the acknowledgments Kingsolver thanks her Virginia friends and neighbors, as well as Fred Herbard of the American Chestnut Foundation. Appalachia...

Word Count : 218

Viles Arboretum

Last Update:

display of the American chestnut and its close relatives. With help from The American Chestnut Foundation, the Arboretum is developing a Chestnut Plantation...

Word Count : 349

Lasdon Park and Arboretum

Last Update:

working with The American Chestnut Foundation to develop a disease-resistant form of this tree. An additional 5 acres (20,000 m2) collects chestnuts from around...

Word Count : 751

Deborah Delmer

Last Update:

and low inputs. Delmer sits on the board of The American Chestnut Foundation. She served as the editor-in-chief of the Annual Review of Plant Biology...

Word Count : 647

Chestnut Hill College

Last Update:

Chestnut Hill College is a private Catholic college in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1924 as a women's...

Word Count : 1140

Interstate Packaging Arboretum

Last Update:

square feet). It serves as a planting site for The American Chestnut Foundation. List of botanical gardens in the United States Interstate Packaging, About...

Word Count : 91

Dolly Parton singles discography

Last Update:

American Songwriter. July 28, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2023. "Saving the American Chestnut Tree". The American Chestnut Foundation. Archived from the...

Word Count : 4661

ArbNet

Last Update:

ArbNet: A Growing Partnership" (PDF). The Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation. 30 (2). 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2016...

Word Count : 311

Zoar Valley

Last Update:

also maintained as a joint venture with the American Chestnut Foundation,: 7  with the goal of developing chestnut blight-resistant trees. Additional protected...

Word Count : 3327

Harold Chestnut

Last Update:

Harold (Hall) Chestnut (November 25, 1917 – August 29, 2001) was an American electrical engineer, control engineer and manager at General Electric and...

Word Count : 905

Norman Borlaug

Last Update:

of the American Chestnut Foundation, vol. 18 no. 2 Fall 2004, p. 9. Retrieved September 6, 2009. American Experience: The Man Who Tried to Feed the World...

Word Count : 9814

Coe Ridge Colony

Last Update:

(22 February 2019). "Black History Month: The Community of Coe Ridge, KY". The American Chestnut Foundation. Retrieved 15 March 2020. Davis, Charles L...

Word Count : 1925

American Revolutionary War

Last Update:

of the broader American Revolution, where American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British...

Word Count : 30002

Frank Nicholas Meyer

Last Update:

Blight. in Mighty Giants: An American Chestnut Anthology, C Bolgiano, ed. Bennington: The American Chestnut Foundation. ISBN 978-1-884592-49-2 pp162-69...

Word Count : 1783

Boyz n the Hood

Last Update:

Jr., Ice Cube, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Tyra Ferrell, Laurence Fishburne, Regina King, and Angela Bassett. Boyz n the Hood follows Tre Styles (Gooding...

Word Count : 2501

Moore State Park

Last Update:

2003, park staff working with the American Chestnut Foundation created a large plantation of experimentally bred chestnut trees as part of efforts to return...

Word Count : 345

American Philosophical Society

Last Update:

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge...

Word Count : 1717

Cornell Botanic Gardens

Last Update:

Cayuta Lake, Ringwood Ponds, South Hill Swamp. Source of plant: The American Chestnut Foundation, Allen Nichols, Stanley Scharf Conifer Collection Several sites...

Word Count : 5230

American Quarter Horse

Last Update:

The American Quarter Horse, or Quarter Horse, is an American breed of horse that excels at sprinting short distances. Its name is derived from its ability...

Word Count : 4572

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net