The mission of The American Chestnut Foundation is to restore the American chestnut tree to our eastern woodlands to benefit our environment, our wildlife, and our society.
TACF is a 501(c)3 conservation organization headquartered in Asheville, NC. To learn about TACF and its national breeding program, visit www.acf.org. |
TACF's 30th Annual Meeting in Herndon, VA was a great success! If you missed it this year, you can check out the highlights and speaker presentations on 
your front yard, trees provide us with multiple benefits that are often overlooked. As our urban landscape continues to grow and change, many have attempted to start placing values on some of these services that trees so quietly provide us. 
The article "Restoring the American Chestnut Tree in the Atomic Age" by Helen Anne Curry in TACF's July/August 2013 issue of The Journal caught my interest. I was one of those irradiated chestnut seed enthusiasts of the 1970s. 