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Partnership Restores American Chestnuts
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The American Chestnut Foundation
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TACF in the News: 2013
4/16/13 Capital Gazette: Prisoners behind bars in Jessup see a future in trees
3/11/13 National Geographic: The Loom "Resurrecting a Forest"
2/13/13 CharlotteObserver.com "Dolly Parton's Ode to the American Chestnut"
1/29/13 Fauquier Now "Chestnut Restoration Effort Has Roots in Fauquier"
TACF in the News: 2012
12/9/12 Minnesota Public Radio News "Blighted Icon: Volunteers Aim to Revive American Chestnut"
11/21/12 Burlington Free Press "American Chestnut in Maine Tops out at 95 Feet"
10/19/12 USA Today "Science Brings Chestnut Back From Brink"
10/16/12 New Hampshire Public Radio "Harvesting Chestnut in the Granite State"
10/12/12 Asheville Citizen-Times "Chestnut Trees Return to WNC"
10/4/2012 Nature "The Chestnut Resurrection"
9/1/2012 Our State "Lord of the Forest"
8/20/12 The Wall Street Journal "Hopes for Chestnut Revival Growing"
6/8/12 Times Free Press "For love of a tree"
5/7/12 MetroWest Daily News "Saving the American chestnut tree"
5/2/12 TribLive Pittsburgh "American chestnut trees added to Sewickley Heights Park"
4/27/12 Philly.com "Trees, trees - new plantings everywhere"
4/10/12 New York Times "Coaxing American Chestnuts Back to Appalachia"
1/27/12 Penn State Live "Effort to establish bright-free American chestnut tree switches gears"
1/12/12 Fluvanna Review "Reviving the sleeping giants"
TACF in the News: 2011
December
12/31/11 Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel "Chestnut trees may get a dose of good health"
12/3/11 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Can the American chestnut tree be revived?"
November
11/28/11 American Profile "Rebirth of the American Chestnut Tree"
11/23/11 New York Times "Chestnuts Worthy of Song"
11/16/11 Asheville Citizen-Times "Tree planting near Asheville part of hope for American chestnut"
October
10/25/11 Eagle Tribune "Vandals target near-extinct tree"
10/17/11 Charlotte Observer "New hope for a vanished giant"
September
July
June
6/21/11 Worcester Telegram "Tree-huggers work diligently to save chestnut"
6/2/11 Bangor Daily News "Groups promote American chestnut growth"
6/1/11 Maryland's Gazette.net "Kensington's constant gardener keeps watch over American legacy"
May
5/5/11 The Charleston Gazette "New strain of blight-resistant chestnuts take root"
April
4/27/11 Times Beacon Record "Repopulating the American chestnut tree"
4/16/11 LA Times "New hope for the old chestnut"
March
3/28/11 PR Newswire "Next South Mountain Lecture to Focus on American Chestnut Restoration"
3/25/11 The L Magazine "Re-Introducing a Near Extinct Species to Prospect Park"
3/24/11 WNYC "A Chestnut Tree Grows Again in Brooklyn"
3/24/11 Park Slope Patch "Chestnuts on the Rebound at Prospect Park"
3/23/11 New York Times "Returning Chestnut Trees to City Where Blight Was First Found"
3/23/11 McClatchy "Georgia farm works to re-establish the American chestnut Tree"
January
1/14/2011 York Dispatch "York County Man Monitors Local Forests for Chestnut Tree Society"
1/25/2011 Telegram.com "Planting a Comeback"
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