Ohio The American Chestnut 🌰 Foundation (TACF)
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We are working to bring the American chestnut 🌰 tree 🌳 back to Ohio. We often give seeds to individuals. Contact us at the email below and ask for seeds
Contact us at
ohiotacf@gmail.com
Contact us at
ohiotacf@gmail.com
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Today, while millions of American chestnut sprouts remain in the forests of the East, almost all the large trees, as well as most of the people who remember the trees’ dominant place in the forest ecosystem, are gone. www.hnn.us/article/tell...
Telling Chestnut Stories
How to use public history and memories to mobilize people to solve environmental challenges.
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May 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Today, while millions of American chestnut sprouts remain in the forests of the East, almost all the large trees, as well as most of the people who remember the trees’ dominant place in the forest ecosystem, are gone. www.hnn.us/article/tell...
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#plants #trees #history #botany #art 🌳
Castanea dentata (many syn.) - #American Chestnut
Not extinct, but very close, due to a fungal infection imported from SE Asia in early C20.
Heroic work to restore the Chestnut by TACF:
tacf.org/restoration/
and by the #NPS
www.nps.gov/articles/ame...
Castanea dentata (many syn.) - #American Chestnut
Not extinct, but very close, due to a fungal infection imported from SE Asia in early C20.
Heroic work to restore the Chestnut by TACF:
tacf.org/restoration/
and by the #NPS
www.nps.gov/articles/ame...
July 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
#plants #trees #history #botany #art 🌳
Castanea dentata (many syn.) - #American Chestnut
Not extinct, but very close, due to a fungal infection imported from SE Asia in early C20.
Heroic work to restore the Chestnut by TACF:
tacf.org/restoration/
and by the #NPS
www.nps.gov/articles/ame...
Castanea dentata (many syn.) - #American Chestnut
Not extinct, but very close, due to a fungal infection imported from SE Asia in early C20.
Heroic work to restore the Chestnut by TACF:
tacf.org/restoration/
and by the #NPS
www.nps.gov/articles/ame...
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Time to stratify the harvest from century+ old American chestnuts in Oregon and Washington! Preserving pre-blight genetics from an accidental genetic diversity repository! #TACF #americanchestnut #chestnutrestoration
October 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Time to stratify the harvest from century+ old American chestnuts in Oregon and Washington! Preserving pre-blight genetics from an accidental genetic diversity repository! #TACF #americanchestnut #chestnutrestoration
Planted a small orchard of American Chestnut trees from Zaleski State forest.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Planted a small orchard of American Chestnut trees from Zaleski State forest.
We are beginning our planning to pollinate 6 native trees next summer here is one of them.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We are beginning our planning to pollinate 6 native trees next summer here is one of them.
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There was a specialist American chestnut bee. It was rediscovered on chinkapins in Maryland in 2019.
Someone found one in an american chestnut orchard last year
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Someone found one in an american chestnut orchard last year
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
May 29, 2024 at 2:45 AM
There was a specialist American chestnut bee. It was rediscovered on chinkapins in Maryland in 2019.
Someone found one in an american chestnut orchard last year
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Someone found one in an american chestnut orchard last year
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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It's not possible to choose just one but since I see other people have already mentioned most of my favorites, I'll pick the American chestnut bee, which has not been seen in decades due to the loss of the chestnut tree. But I feel like it has to be out there somewhere in an Appalachian forest.
March 7, 2024 at 4:21 PM
It's not possible to choose just one but since I see other people have already mentioned most of my favorites, I'll pick the American chestnut bee, which has not been seen in decades due to the loss of the chestnut tree. But I feel like it has to be out there somewhere in an Appalachian forest.
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Story of the lost American Chestnut Bee (Andrena rehni) and its rediscovery. Check out TACF.org for more.
#ecology #nativeplants #nativehabitat #americanchestnut #nativebees #pollinators
#ecology #nativeplants #nativehabitat #americanchestnut #nativebees #pollinators
January 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Story of the lost American Chestnut Bee (Andrena rehni) and its rediscovery. Check out TACF.org for more.
#ecology #nativeplants #nativehabitat #americanchestnut #nativebees #pollinators
#ecology #nativeplants #nativehabitat #americanchestnut #nativebees #pollinators
Here is a seedling in full sun
February 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Here is a seedling in full sun
We are getting ready to plant last years seeds indoors. We plant wild type seeds and they can be planted outside in late May in Ohio.
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February 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We are getting ready to plant last years seeds indoors. We plant wild type seeds and they can be planted outside in late May in Ohio.
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This is a nice chart of the growth of an American Chestnut tree. That was in the past. The blight significantly stunts the growth. We find a few trees of 50' tall in Ohio but not many.
January 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This is a nice chart of the growth of an American Chestnut tree. That was in the past. The blight significantly stunts the growth. We find a few trees of 50' tall in Ohio but not many.
The blight on American Chestnuts
January 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The blight on American Chestnuts
One of our recent plans are to find native companion plants for American Chestnut trees. It would be great to hear your recommendations. We are beginning to work with parks and are grateful for the policies to plant native
January 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
One of our recent plans are to find native companion plants for American Chestnut trees. It would be great to hear your recommendations. We are beginning to work with parks and are grateful for the policies to plant native
The American Chestnut supported a bee. It is likely still around.
"It is also inextricably tied to chestnuts; it is a diet specialist, using only the pollen of plants in the genus Castanea as food to rear its young."
blog.lasdonpark.org/finding-the-...
"It is also inextricably tied to chestnuts; it is a diet specialist, using only the pollen of plants in the genus Castanea as food to rear its young."
blog.lasdonpark.org/finding-the-...
Finding The Lost Chestnut Bee – blog
blog.lasdonpark.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The American Chestnut supported a bee. It is likely still around.
"It is also inextricably tied to chestnuts; it is a diet specialist, using only the pollen of plants in the genus Castanea as food to rear its young."
blog.lasdonpark.org/finding-the-...
"It is also inextricably tied to chestnuts; it is a diet specialist, using only the pollen of plants in the genus Castanea as food to rear its young."
blog.lasdonpark.org/finding-the-...
The Medina middle school has a chestnut club. The teacher coordinator had a classroom project on the American chestnut and the class planted B3F3 and wild type trees at the school and at city parks with coordination with the city arborist
January 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Medina middle school has a chestnut club. The teacher coordinator had a classroom project on the American chestnut and the class planted B3F3 and wild type trees at the school and at city parks with coordination with the city arborist
We are working to get 100 trees planted with the scouts at camp Manatoc. The planting will be part of a stewardship program the camp does for the scouts
January 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We are working to get 100 trees planted with the scouts at camp Manatoc. The planting will be part of a stewardship program the camp does for the scouts
The Ohio TACF will be gathering scion wood in Ohio this February. If you think you have an American Chestnut please contact us at the email address listed. We have many partners in Northeast Ohio and looking for more
January 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Ohio TACF will be gathering scion wood in Ohio this February. If you think you have an American Chestnut please contact us at the email address listed. We have many partners in Northeast Ohio and looking for more
We have projects throughout the state of Ohio. But we are making progress in Northeast Ohio getting seed to members and trees in the ground. MCDP is a great partner and planted 200 B3F3 trees last year.
January 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We have projects throughout the state of Ohio. But we are making progress in Northeast Ohio getting seed to members and trees in the ground. MCDP is a great partner and planted 200 B3F3 trees last year.
Our group in NE Ohio is interested in the insect activity on AC trees and if having other chestnut trees would have kept chestnut insects from disappearing.
January 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Our group in NE Ohio is interested in the insect activity on AC trees and if having other chestnut trees would have kept chestnut insects from disappearing.
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Wiped out nearly a century ago, the American chestnut tree was a keystone species that served host to myriad insects. A new study details the community of chestnut-feeding leafminer and stem miner insects still present in New York state and how they fare on other, non-native chestnut species.
When the American Chestnut Vanished, What Happened to Insects That Fed On It?
Wiped out by a fungal disease nearly a century ago, the American chestnut tree was a keystone species that served as host to myriad insects. A new study documents the community of chestnut-feeding lea...
entomologytoday.org
June 25, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Wiped out nearly a century ago, the American chestnut tree was a keystone species that served host to myriad insects. A new study details the community of chestnut-feeding leafminer and stem miner insects still present in New York state and how they fare on other, non-native chestnut species.
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Was inspired in discussing chestnuts with Rachael to post about the American chestnut. It's an important vestige of the past. It was once a food source for both people and animals. The American Chestnut Foundation is working on developing a blight resistant chestnut.
tacf.org/history-amer...
tacf.org/history-amer...
American Chestnut History | The American Chestnut Foundation
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November 16, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Was inspired in discussing chestnuts with Rachael to post about the American chestnut. It's an important vestige of the past. It was once a food source for both people and animals. The American Chestnut Foundation is working on developing a blight resistant chestnut.
tacf.org/history-amer...
tacf.org/history-amer...
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"This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal spread of the American chestnut blight in Tennessee"
Archive and library special collections as proxy data: reconstructing the American chestnut blight through digitized collections - Archival Science
This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reco...
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December 10, 2024 at 7:11 AM
"This paper discusses the design and implications of a study that explored the potential for archives and library special collections to serve as historical environmental proxy data to support the reconstruction of the spatiotemporal spread of the American chestnut blight in Tennessee"
