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TACF in the News: 2012

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 Tiimes "Chestnuts Worthy of Song"

11/19/11 Foster's Daily Democrat "Pinning hopes on American chestnuts: Cross-pollinated seedlings from Farmington tree growing in effort to reintroduce majestic giant"

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

9/10/11 Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association "American Chestnuts Populating MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center"

July

7/9/11 Anderson Independent Mail "Reviving the chestnut: Retired Seneca doctor works to restore majestic trees"

7/3/11 Portland Press Herald "Maine Gardener: Efforts to bring back the great American chestnut raise hopes"

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 New York Daily News "Brooklyn man fights for chestnut return, tree decimated by disease in early 20th century"

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"

3/21/11 Asheville Citizen Times "Rolling Stone Keyboardist Plants Chestnut Trees from Asheville-based Foundation"

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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