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The mission of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is to restore the American chestnut tree to the forests of Eastern North America by breeding genetically diverse blight-resistant trees, evaluating various approaches to the management of chestnut pests and pathogens, and reintroducing the trees into the forest in an ecologically acceptable manner.
The American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation ( ACCF) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, scientific, and educational foundation that was organized in 1986 and with the help of research and volunteers from Virginia Tech Universit y, is dedicated to restoring the American chestnut ( Castanea dentata) [1] to its former place in the United States Eastern ...
Darling 58. The Darling 58 is a genetically engineered American chestnut tree. The tree was created by American Chestnut Research & Restoration Program at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in collaboration with The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) [1] to restore the American chestnut to ...
Jul. 12—For park Manager Rob Barrese, Lackawanna State Park's participation in a project to help restore the American chestnut to its former glory has become a matter of growing and waiting. The ...
The Cornell Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden located adjacent to the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. The Botanic Gardens proper consist of 25 acres (10 ha) of botanical gardens and 150 acres (61 ha) of the F. R. Newman Arboretum. The greater Botanic Gardens includes 40 different nature areas around Cornell and Ithaca ...
Latimer was born in Schenectady, New York, in 1963. [2] He graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1985 with a double major in English and psychology, having studied American literature with John Lydenberg. [3] During his Master's education at Columbia University he was introduced to cognitive and ...
The American Chestnut Foundation was also only recently told about the tree's existence. [131] Members of the Kentucky chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation have been pollinating a tree found on a farm in Adair County, and a specimen found on Henderson Ridge in Elliott County. The Adair County tree is over one hundred years old. [132] [133]
Indigenous Language Institute. The Indigenous Language Institute (ILI) is a nonprofit organization that works to preserve and pass on language traditions within indigenous groups located in North America. The organization was founded in 1992 as the Preservation of Original Languages of the Americas (IPOLA), and it has since worked closely with ...