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TCD Webinar March 28

Plan on attending the webinar on Thousand Cankers Disease on Thursday, March 28 starting at 10 AM EDT. Future seminars will be April 25 and May 30. This seminar series is for landowners, extension educators, and natural resource professionals. Everyone is welcome to participate in the live webinar. Click here for further information...

Join our campaign to limit the movement of walnut material

We are asking our members to contact online websites which sell walnut and request they prohibit the sale of bark-on walnut material. Click here for contact information and a sample letter...

North Carolina detects thousand cankers disease in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

See the details about the quarantine.

Virginia expands TCD Quarantine to include 2 more counties

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Website developed as resource for info on Thousand Cankers disease

This national TCD website, co-sponsored by Walnut Council, provides the latest information on quarantines, research, and information for landowners and scientists. More...

National TCD meeting held in West Lafayette

See documents and recordings from the meeting, which was co-sponsored by Walnut Council. More...

Agriculture Department Announces Detection of Thousand Cankers Disease in Pennsylvania Trees, Enacts Quarantine to Prevent Spread

On Aug. 9, 2011, the department in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Penn State Cooperative Extension confirmed the presence of Thousand Cankers Disease in black walnut trees in Bucks County. More...

VIRGINIA QUARANTINES MOVEMENT OF WALNUT TREES AND RELATED PRODUCTS FROM CHESTERFIELD AND HENRICO COUNTIES AND THE CITY OF RICHMOND

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) today placed a temporary quarantine on Chesterfield and Henrico Counties and the city of Richmond following the detection of Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) in Chesterfield and Henrico Counties. The city of Richmond is included because of its proximity to the locations where the disease was detected. More...

American Chestnut Trees Return to the Hoosier National Forest

Once a prominent forest tree in southern Indiana, potentially blight resistant American chestnut trees have now been re-planted on the Hoosier. The first of two areas have been planted with blight-resistant American chestnut trees on the Hoosier National Forest. More...

Forest Service Report on Sustainable Forests Offers Support for All-Lands Approach to Resource Management

The United States has 751 million acres of forests that have remained remarkably stable during the past 50 years, according to the U.S. Forest Service's 2010 National Report on Sustainable Forests that was released today. More...

U.S. Forest Service, Partners, to Premiere New Documentary on Aldo Leopold's Legacy

The U.S. Forest Service has partnered with the Aldo Leopold Foundation and the Center for Humans and Nature in the first feature-length, high-definition documentary about the legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold. The film "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time" will premiere on Saturday, Feb. 5, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. More...

Thousand Cankers Disease Hits Eastern TN

A disease-causing fungus that kills black walnut trees has been confirmed in East Tennessee. Knoxville News-Sentinel, August 6, 2010



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