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Wedding Behind the Scenes: Tree Tablecards
We had beautiful succulent-inspired invitations designed for us by Rachelle Somma. Originally when we were tackling table cards, I took her invitation design and simply numbered the tables… in binary. 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, etc. I sent them over to Ryan for review. Then I heard something I never thought I would [...]
11-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://tgaw.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/wedding-behind-the-scen ...

YouTube - The American Chestnut in Southern Appalachia: An Oral History (Part 1 of 3)
The American Chestnut in Southern Appalachia: An Oral History
10-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfrVtFsO0aU&feature=youtube_gdata

Chestnut Trees in South Carolina | Garden Guides
10-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://www.gardenguides.com/98927-chestnut-trees-south-carolina.html

Healthy Watershed Through a Healthy Forest Initiative
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities has awarded the VDOF a $400,000 grant to introduce a sustainable forestry demonstration project in Central Virginiaâ??s South Fork Rivanna River Reservoir Watershed that will link landownersâ?? financial interests and their forestland management practices in this area to urban consumers of the municipal water supply to influence landowner behavior in a way that reduces the costs of both urban and rural users of the water resource.â??Expensive, engi
06-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirginiaForests/~3/6V8F3M6SaY ...

7,000 Trees Planted On Former Mine Property - KYPost.com
04-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://www.kypost.com/content/news/commonwealth/story/7-000- ...

Gluten Free Variation on Scottish Scones Using Chestnut Flour! « gfcelebration's Blog
04-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://gfcelebration.com/2010/03/02/gluten-free-variation-on ...

Aron Namenwirth: Breed
With the advent of a new hybrid super-chestnut tree completely resistant to the blight â?? the so-called "holy grail" of chestnut trees â?? however, things may finally be looking up for the beleaguered species.
04-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://aronnamenwirth.blogspot.com/2010/03/breed.html

TheTimesTribune.com, Corbin, KY - Wâ??burg gets 7,000 new trees
Nearly 100 volunteers braved the wind and snow Saturday to plant 7,000 trees on former mining property just outside Williamsburg on Kentucky 478.
03-Mar-10 12:00 AM http://www.thetimestribune.com/local/local_story_060100136.html

Thousands attend Jaffa sports show - AltoonaMirror.com | News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - The Altoona Mirror
Wildlife Biologist Jeff Krause of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Raystown Lake gave a presentation about the efforts to restore the American Chestnut tree late Friday afternoon.
28-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/527383.html

Reminder - CT Chapter Annual Meeting
Do you know anyone interested in American chestnut and the current work to restore this important species to CT? Please spread the word that the CT Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will hold our annual meeting in partnership with T...
27-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://ctacf.org/index.cfm/2010/2/26/Reminder--CT-Chapter-An ...

Foundation working to fight blight of chestnuts - The News-Herald News : Breaking news coverage for Northern Ohio
The ACF has had some success introducing hybrid chestnuts to forests. The Ohio chapter of the ACF has specialized in turning former strip mines into burgeoning chestnut groves, Miller said.
23-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/02/22/news/nh2131550.txt

American Gardener Reviews » Blog Archive » Ancient Explorers Discovered Unique Native Nut Trees Growing In America
Bartram, on page 365, identified the American chestnut as being important in the construction of Cherokee Indian buildings
22-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://americangardenerreviews.myreviwe.net/2010/02/21/ancie ...

Greenscape Gardens Green Blog
Prior to the chestnut blight, one in four hardwood trees in Pennsylvania was a chestnut
22-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://greenscapegardens.blogspot.com/2010/02/greenscape-gar ...

Backcountry Notes - Society and Culture - Backcountry Folk of the Virginia Blue Ridge
Old Ragged Mountain, photographed by Arnold Rothstein in 1935. A dead American Chestnut, symbolic of the economic distress of the mountain folk, is in the foreground. Library of Congress.
21-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://www.backcountrynotes.com/society-and-culture/2010/2/1 ...

Nuts Nutrition | An Abyss Of Imagination
There are the American chestnut, the European chestnut, Chinese and the Japanese chestnut. They are a rich source of protein, carbohydrates, calcium and potassium.
21-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://nayna.in/blog/fitness-quotient/nuts-nutrition/

The Peace Bee Farmer: Kentucky Provides for Bees
These plants will include sourwood trees, famous for honey, and the American chestnut tree. This native tree once comprised one third of the forest before it was decimated by blight.
21-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://peacebeefarm.blogspot.com/2010/02/kentucky-provides-f ...

GardenDesignOnline: Restoration Chestnuts
19-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://www.gardendesignonline.com/gardendesignonline/2010/02 ...

Tracing American chestnuts with chloroplast DNA markers
By Kendra Gurney TACF® New England Region Science Coordinator In spring of 2009 Dr. Fenny Dane, a professor at Auburn University, presented her research on the evolutionary history of Castanea species at CT-TACF's Annual Meeting. Dr. Dane has us...
19-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://ctacf.org/index.cfm/2010/2/18/Tracing-American-chestn ...

Backcountry Notes - Laws of Nature - The American Chestnut - - "National Tree" Of The Backcountry
If there is a "national tree" of the Backcountry, it is the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, which provided both food and lumber to generations of settlers and their descendants before being extirpated by blight.
18-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.backcountrynotes.com/laws-of-nature/2008/12/26/th ...

Chronicle
The American Chestnut Foundation Needs Citizen Scientists to Test Potentially Blight-Resistant Chestnut Seeds
18-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.interestalert.com/story/02040000aaa04b68.prn/pkre ...

Backcountry Notes - Society and Culture - Lost Log Cabins of the Virginia Blue Ridge
The Blue Ridge folk were in poor shape economically ... the major cause was the chestnut blight, which had raged through Southern Appalachia beginning in the mid-1920s
18-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.backcountrynotes.com/society-and-culture/2010/2/1 ...

2010 Report of CT-TACF Nominating Committee
CT-TACF Nominating Committee members Robert Gregg, Woods Sinclair and Jennifer Allcock are recommending the following slate of candidates for Board membership and for Chapter Officers: Nominees for Board membership Under the revised bylaws, as ma...
17-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://ctacf.org/index.cfm/2010/2/16/2010-Report-of-CTTACF-N ...

Re-establishing the American Chestnut - NHEvents.com
Tin Mountainâ??s February Eco-Forum will feature Kendra Gurney of the The American Chestnut Foundation, who will discuss the ongoing efforts to re-establish the American chestnut
13-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.nh.com/nh/events/lectures/17990/re-establishing-t ...

USDA Invokes Emergency Powers to Stop the Introduction of Non-Native Pests That Attack Palm Trees -- ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
APHIS has issued a federal import quarantine order that will prohibit the importation of several palm tree species from all foreign countries ..says Faith Campbell, senior policy representative at the Conservancy. "We don't want to see any more trees go the way of the American chestnut
12-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/usda-invokes-emergen ...

Fairfax County community events, Feb. 11-18, 2010 - washingtonpost.com
"THE PLIGHT OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT," a slide lecture by Cathy Mayes
12-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02 ...

Advocates envision free fruit and nuts for Madison parks
Talk with advocates of the newest tree-loving initiative in the city, and the mind conjures visions of a latter-day Eden dotted with trees heavy with fruit, ripe for the picking.
10-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/article_3a129588-1014- ...

The Peace Bee Farmer: Repairing Damaged Mountains
The magnificent American chestnut is even being reintroduced into its native Appalachian range.
10-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://peacebeefarm.blogspot.com/2010/02/repairing-damaged-m ...

TACF Tree Web Application
By Bill Adamsen - Wilton, CT Director of The American Chestnut Foundation, President, CT Chapter The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) has embarked on a major initiative to bring its tree data closer to the end user by developing a web-interf... [More]
10-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://ctacf.org/index.cfm/2010/2/9/TACF-Tree-Web-Application

TriCities.com : Researchers hope to resurrect American Chestnut
09-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://m.tricities.com/tricities/db_6927/contentdetail.htm;j ...

TD AMERITRADE: Markets > News
07-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://research.tdameritrade.com/public/markets/news/story.a ...

enquirerjournal - Plantings could restore American chestnut
07-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://enquirerjournal.com/view/full_story/3702997/article-P ...

The American Chestnut Foundation Needs Citizen Scientists to Test Potentially Blight-Resistant Chestnut Seeds | Food Distribution Edge
07-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://fooddistributionedge.com/food/the-american-chestnut-f ...

Kentucky environmental attorney Sanders salutes the American Chestnut Foundationâ??s efforts to restore American Chestnut tree. « Kentucky Environmental Matters
07-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://jeffreymsanders.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/kentucky-env ...

The American Chestnut Foundation Needs Citizen Scientists to Test Potentially Blight-Resistant Chestnut Seeds
he American Chestnut Foundation (TACF®) has taken an unprecedented step toward the restoration of the American chestnut tree by offering a limited number of its most advanced and potentially blight-resistant seeds to both new and existing sponsor members for planting and testing.
06-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/the-american-chestnu ...

The American Chestnut Foundation Needs Citizen Scientists to Test Potentially Blight-Resistant Chestnut Seeds - FOXBusiness.com
The American Chestnut Foundation Needs Citizen Scientists to Test Potentially Blight-Resistant Chestnut Seeds
06-Feb-10 12:01 AM http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/american-chestnut-foundatio ...

Morong donates conservation easement on 23 acres in Madbury - Fosters
The land's mix of undisturbed upland and wetland habitat, large abutting fields, and oak-pine forests supports a diversity of wildlife, even bears. The land also boasts a few remnant American chestnut saplings.
05-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100203/G ...

Vicky in American Forests Magazine
352 of Ryan Somma’s Creative Commons Science and Nature Images appear in Wikipedia articles. (228 credited as Ryan Somma, 124 as ideonexus). One could argue by sharing his photos, Ryan is helping to educate and inspire. Well, *I*, Vicky Sawyer, now have a claim in the realm of education and knowledge as well! I [...]
02-Feb-10 12:00 AM http://tgaw.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/vicky-in-american-fores ...

Chestnut comeback event Jan. 30 at Princeton church | www.thelandmark.com | Landmark
Love the American chestnut tree? Interested in seeing the American chestnut make a comeback? From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30, Princeton will host an American Chestnut Foundation event.
28-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2010-01-28/Regional_News/Che ...

nrs_2009_schaberg_001.pdf (application/pdf Object)
TACF's Kendra published on NRS Web-Site
26-Jan-10 06:02 AM http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/2009/nrs_2009_schaberg_001.pdf

INFORMATION HUB: All About Chestnut
In Europe ... chestnut was called "bread tree." Cultivated forms of chestnuts covered hundreds of varieties selected for specific qualities for use as candying, frying, boiling, drying, flour and butter.
26-Jan-10 06:02 AM http://freenaturalbeautytips.blogspot.com/2010/01/all-about- ...

California Butterflies See Big Declines from Eco Double Blow : EcoWorldly
When the American Chestnut disappeared as a forest dominant in the east, the system did not collapseâ??and as far as we know, not one species went extinct.
25-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://ecoworldly.com/2010/01/24/california-butterflies-see- ...

The resurrection of an American king: the chestnut returns
Unfortunately, many of our readers have never seen an American chestnut. So, for those who are wondering, here's what they look like:
23-Jan-10 05:09 AM http://image.examiner.com/x-24973-Letcher-County-Civil-Right ...

Presentation on the â??The Plight of the American Chestnutâ? | Arlington Regional Master Naturalist
The Virginia Native Plant Society Potowmack Chapter has graciously invited all Master Naturalists and Tree Stewards to attend â??The Plight of the American Chestnutâ?
23-Jan-10 05:09 AM http://armn.org/?p=1264

Chestnuts: How to Grow an American Classic
Chestnuts are unique among nuts in that their nutmeat is high in carbohydrates, rather than high in oil.
23-Jan-10 05:09 AM http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Growing-Che ...

Considering a Vacation in Gatlinburg, TN? : Traveling Tips â?? Traveling Ideas
The Davis House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s.
23-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://jgxy.org/?p=518

Chestnut event Jan. 30 | www.thelandmark.com | Landmark
Interested in seeing the American chestnut make a comeback?
22-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://www.thelandmark.com/news/2010-01-21/Front_Page/Chestn ...

| BlueRidgeNow.com | Times-News Online | Hendersonville, NC
Part of the backbone of the native woodland forest in Western North Carolina was the American chestnut.
20-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20100118/NEWS/100119815/ ...

American Chestnut Restoration Branch « HRCVMN: Field Journal
On behalf of The American Chestnut Foundation, I would like to invite you to take part in this exciting new project that The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is implementing in Southwest Virginia.
18-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://holstonriversvmn.org/blog/2010/01/16/american-chestnu ...

Arenâ??t There Real Environmental Problems That We Should Address Before Global Warming? | Environment
he American Chestnut was so plentiful, a squirrel could travel from Georgia to Maine without touching the ground.
18-Jan-10 12:00 AM http://www.anandagaya.com/environmental-problems/arent-there ...

Warnell News » Blog Archive » The Giant Returns: Progress with American Chestnut Restoration
The Giant Returns: Progress with American Chestnut Restoration
15-Jan-10 06:18 AM http://www.warnell.uga.edu/news/index.php/2010/01/the-giant- ...


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