The Following press releases are
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TACF Awarded 4 Stars From America's Largest Charity Evaluator
Partnership Restores American Chestnuts
TACF Joins US Forest Service Centennial Celebration in DC
TACF President Marshal Case Thankful for Recent Gift
The American Chestnut Foundation purchases farm
for use in chestnut restoration program
TACF Receives Grant From National Forest Foundation
Connecticut Chapter receives grant from
Norcross Wildlife Foundation
The American Chestnut Foundation
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TACF in the News: 2008
May 2008
Chinese DNA gives life to an American chestnut tree
Plenty Magazine
A Tree Grows In White Plains
May 2 ~ Cornell Chronicle
Reclaiming The Earth
May 2 ~ Tulsa World
April 2008
The American Chestnut Foundation works to restore an important tree to the forests of Pennsylvania
by: Sara Fitzsimmons ~ Turkey Talk (PA_NWTF)
April 25 ~ Environment News
With an eye to the future, White Plains plants a tree with a Magnificent past
April 25 ~ LoHud.com
MINING/CONSERVATION: Forestry initiative plants threatened chestnuts on stripped land
April 24 ~ The Land Letter
Work to Resurrect American Chestnut
April 21 ~ Red Orbit.com
Chestnut once redwood of East THE AMERICAN CHESNUT
April 21 ~ fredericksburg.com
American chestnut seedlings planted in Wayne National Forest
April 16 ~ Herald Dispatch
Restoration of razed areas takes root in Appalachia
April 14 ~ The Daily Beacon
American Chestnut Foundation honors Thomas Jefferson in Bedford County
April 13 ~ WDBJ7.com
American chestnuts reintroduced
April 12 ~ The Athens Messenger
Chestnuts returning to Poplar Forest
April 9 ~ NewsAdvance.com
Seeds Sown; Now it's up to nature
April 7 ~ Lancaster.com
High School Students Plant Trees On Strip Mine Site
April 7 ~ TriCities.com
Chestnuts Used to Restore Strip Mines
April 1 ~ Burlington Free Press
March 2008
Chestnuts Used To Restore Strip Mines
March 31 ~ Washington Post
Slide show for AP article
Preview of April's Issue of "Pennsylvania Outdoors Times" - featuring TACF's Sara Fitzsimmons!
TACF Meadowview Research Farm on Local News
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Rare American chestnut tree found in Ohio
March 25 ~ AP
Efforts to restore American chestnut produces line of blight-resistant trees
March 22 ~ Bangor Daily News
Rare chestnut tree survives at Sheldon
March 22 ~ Sandusky Register
Revival of the chestnuts: Groups hope to restore majestic trees killed by blight in early 1900s
March 16 ~ Charlotte Observer
Project aims to hone planting method for chestnuts on mine site
March 15 ~ Knoxnews.com
Cooperative Study of American Chestnut Trees
by: Caroline Dufour and Meghan Jordan
The American Chestnut
March 2008 ~ National Geographic
American chestnuts bred for blight resistance
March 9 ~ The Courier Journal
February 2008
Demonstration site to educate public about chestnut trees
Feb 26 ~ Knoxville News Sentinel
The return of the American chestnut tree
Feb 11 ~ Fauquier Times
Chestnut Foundation gets largest gift ever
Feb 11 ~ Rutland Herald
Review of "Mighty Giants"
Feb 9 ~ Lexington Herald Leader
$ 1 million dollars given to restore chestnut
Feb 8 ~ Burlington Free Press
TACF gets $ 1 million donation
Feb 7 ~ Ashville Citizen-Times
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