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2009

• So far, So Good for Blight-Resistant Chestnuts
• Heritage Walk Will Describe Chestnut Restoration Effort
• Reclaiming American Chestnut
  
• In The Ground
  
• Group seeks to restore the American chestnut to its former glory
  
• New Preserve in Litchfield to be Haven for Wildlife
  
• Majestic Chestnut's Helpers
  
• Paxtonville man works to revive American chestnuts
  
• Rare American Chestnut Tree Largest In State
  
• Pulling chestnuts out of the urban forest
  
• Guard works with chestnut trees
  
• Bringing back the perfect tree
  
• Groups team up in American chestnut restoration efforts
  
• Local couple goes extreme lengths to save trees
  
• American Chestnut: Voices of Memory & Hope
  
• American tale: Bringing back the perfect tree
  
• Couple works to save ailing American chestnut tree
  
• Five Crazy Days for Chestnuts
  
• National Guard assists in chestnut tree restoration
  
• UGA Researchers Could Help Restore Devasted American Chestnut
  
• Chestnut trees examined at Merryspring to find blight-resistant specimens
  
• American chestnut's Revival May Combat Climate Change
  
• Effort will plant chestnut trees (2 newspaper clippings)
  
• Visit local sites featuring American chestnut wood
  
• Volunteer to find surviving chestnuts along the AT
  
• Saving the chestnut, one sapling at a time
  
• American chestnut seedlings test blight resistance
  
• Bringing back the American chestnut tree could take a century
  
• The Report Card
  
• Working to restore the American chestnut tree
  
• N.C. American Chestnut Foundation gets help reiving chestnut tree
  
• Planting to revive the chestnut
  
• Effort to bring back chestnut takes root in Ohio
  
• Hopes growing for American chestnut after century of disease
  
• Coal land to transform into hardwood forest
  
• Fighting the blight; The return of the American chestnut
  
• Earth Day Celebrated!
  
• International Coal Group Celebrates Arbor Day with Webster County Students
  
• Riverbanks adding rare chestnut trees to Canopy
  
• Resurrecting the chestnut
  
• Old maps give clues where fabled chestnut trees might grow
  
• Planting chestnuts on mine land fights blight
  
• American Chestnut Tree: Mourning the gentle giant of the Smokey Mountains
  
• Make Way For The King: American Chestnut
  
• Tree Planting on Tap Today
  
• Scientists plan chestnut tree planting in April
  
• Legacy and Inheritance on National Land
  
• Range, Research, Genetic Work Spell Hope For Chestnut Comeback
  
• Conserving Chestnut Trees
  
• Reviving a Fallen Giant
  
• Chestnut makes a comeback
  
• American chestnut ready to reign again
  
• New chestnut trees may reclaim forests
  
• Arbor Day Comes to the Cumberland Wildlife Management Area
  
• American Chestnut Makes a Slow Comeback
  
• Growing together
  
• Naturalists hope fledgling American chestnuts could help spark a return of the former majestic tree
  
• New chestnut trees may reclaim forest
  
• Key to reviving Georgia's chestnut trees may lie in the past
  
• Restoring the American chestnut
  
• Chestnut HQ pulls up stakes
  
• American Chestnut Foundation moved to NC
  
• Chestnut tree numbers dwindling
  
• Extreme Makeover: The White House Edition
  
• American Chestnut - Back on Home Turf
  
• American Chestnut Making a Comeback

2008

• 38 million trees destined for Appalachia
• Restoring The American Chestnut Tree (video)
• Long forgotten, chestnuts are coming back with a vengeance
• Blight-Resistant American chestnut trees nearing reality
• Hope for stately chestnut
  
• Groundbreaking In The Snow Held For New Chestnut Research Lab
  
• The demise of the American chestnut
  
• Utility, forest officials near agreement on how to work together
  
• Blight-resistant American chestnut trees nearing reality
  
• Enthusiasts breeding blight-resistant chestnut
  
• Money doesn't grow on chestnut trees anymore
  
• Retired Judge watches over FDR Park
  
• Arboretum springing up at Chestnut Hill Academy
  
• Brining back the mighty American chestnut tree
  
• Efforts made to restore the American chestnut tree
  
• Chestnut trees take root in 2 Morris Townships
  
• Hybrid trees the answer to chestnut blight
  
• The American Chestnut Returns To Chestnut Hill
  
• Chestnut tree at Ballard State Park Yields Hope for the Future
  
• Chasing the Chestnut
  
• Last Stand For The Old Chestnut
  
• Groups hope to re-establish Ozark chinquapins
  
• Saving the American chestnut tree
  
• Local Forest Home to Surviving Chestnut Tree
  
• Chestnut Revival
  
• Rare tree has roots in Cameron
  
• Helping The American Chestnut Foundation bring back a legend
  
• Compass Quarterly Magazine
  
• New life for the chestnut
  
• The American Chestnut Returns
  Text version of radio show
  
• "Mighty Giants:An American Chestnut Anthology" wins award
  
• Volunteers Fight Chestnut Blight
  
• Pulaski yard a lab for Chestnut tree experiment
  
• Arborcide In The Forest
  
• Chestnut trees that once dominated the region are being given a second chance
  
• Governor’s mansion planting may revive American chestnut
  
• Saving the American chestnut
  
• Chestnut tree flurishing at Dalton State
  
• Scientists try to resurrect that old chestnut
  
• Walkersville, Thurmont schools among dozens recognized as ‘green’
  
• Experts hope to develop blight-resistant chestnut tree
  
• Interview with VT Chapter Officers Grace & Randy Knight and Terry Gulick at the Knight Farm
  
• American Chestnut
  
• Making the world better, one chestnut at a time
  
• Friends of Chestnut
  
• Farm hosts planting with hope that chestnut trees can return to area
  
• Beyond the blight
  
• Chinese DNA gives life to an American chestnut tree
  
• A Tree Grows In White Plains
  
• Reclaiming The Earth
• The American Chestnut Foundation works to restore an important tree to the forests of Pennsylvania
  
• Tree-Taggers, Tree-Planters Mark Oldest Environmental Holiday
  
• With an eye to the future, White Plains plants a tree with a Magnificent past
  
• MINING/CONSERVATION: Forestry initiative plants threatened chestnuts on stripped land
  
• Work to Resurrect American Chestnut
  
• Chestnut once redwood of East THE AMERICAN CHESNUT
  
• American chestnut seedlings planted in Wayne National Forest
  
• Restoration of razed areas takes root in Appalachia
  
• American Chestnut Foundation honors Thomas Jefferson in Bedford County
  
• American chestnuts reintroduced
• Chestnuts returning to Poplar Forest
  
• Seeds Sown; Now it's up to nature
  
• High School Students Plant Trees On Strip Mine Site
  
• Chestnuts Used to Restore Strip Mines
  
• Chestnuts Used To Restore Strip Mines
  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
  
• Rare American chestnut tree found in Ohio
  
• Efforts to restore American chestnut produces line of blight-resistant trees
  
• Rare chestnut tree survives at Sheldon
  
• Revival of the chestnuts: Groups hope to restore majestic trees killed by blight in early 1900s
  
• Project aims to hone planting method for chestnuts on mine site
  
• Cooperative Study of American Chestnut Trees
  
• The American Chestnut
  
• American chestnuts bred for blight resistance
  
• Demonstration site to educate public about chestnut trees
  
• The return of the American chestnut tree
  
• Chestnut Foundation gets largest gift ever
  
• Review of "Mighty Giants"
  
• $ 1 million dollars given to restore chestnut
  
• TACF gets $ 1 million donation
  

2007

• American Chestnut Facing New Future Thanks to Oconee County Doctor
  Trees by Design
• Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
• Chestnuts ~ From Garden to Table
• Growers Bid To Revive American Chestnut
• As the Crow Flies: Hope for the American chestnut
• Can this tree be saved
• Disappearing Chestnuts
• Volunteers work to revitalize chestnut trees
  
• Chestnut trees a welcome surprise
  
• Barnum's Tree A Type Not Born Every Minute
• A Race To Save The Ash Tree
  
• Challenges remain in reintroducing American chestnut
  
• Rare chestnut stand a real mystery
• Mine sites to become verdant stands of hardwood
• Chestnut tree poised for comeback
• Chinese cousin helps American chestnut tree
  
• Blight-devastated chestnut trees now spreading again
  
• Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne Dedicates American Chestnut Tree
  
• Lions help restore legendary American chestnut tree
• Norman Borlaug to recieve Congressional Gold Medal
  
• TACF Awarded $50,000 Matching Grant
  
• Blight Fight - An Interview with TACF's Leila Pinchot
  
• The American Chestnut Tree Making a Comeback
  
• An agreement has been reached between the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Columbia Gas Transmission Corp
  
• In Nature: Chestnut blight re-wrote story of Appalachian forests
  
• The Edge of Extinction
  
• Falls Village: Breeders hope for American chestnut tree revival
  
• American chestnut makes return to Meigs County
• In Nature: Chestnut blight re-wrote story of Appalachian forests
  
• Where there be mountains, there be chestnuts
  
• Planters hope chestnut forests take hold
  
• Planting seeks to revive chestnut's place in Ohio
  
• Planters hope new chestnut forests take hold at strip mine site
  
• Chestnut tree restoration under way at Bankhead National Forest
  
• Arborists Attuned to Spreading Chestnut Trees
  
• A Tale of Chestnuts and Trout
  
• Trees Planted for Arbor Day
  
• American Chestnut Part of Zoar Valley Management Plan
  
• Fighting for survival: Allegheny woodrat said to be declining in (PA) state's forests
  
• Bringing back the chestnut tree
  
• Returning the American Chestnut to Our Forests
  

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