PR Resources – Media
The materials provided on this page are designed to assist you in running a successful story about The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF). To request high-resolution photos from the image gallery below, fill out the editable Media Permission Request Form and email it to TACF’s Media and Communications Manager, Jules Smith. For questions or more information, contact the national office at (828) 281-0047.
All photo credits should be given to TACF with the exception of historical images. Those credits can be found in their file captions. To access captions, click on individual photos.
TACF Standard Press Kit
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- Healthy American chestnut hybrid growing in Western North Carolina.
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- Wild American chestnut trees (lower third) growing in Western North Carolina.
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- A catkin blooms on this young American chestnut hybrid.
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- New leaf growth on an American chestnut at Meadowview Research Farms, Virginia.
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- American chestnut burs and nuts from a tree in Maryland.
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- An open American chestnut bur.
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- An American chestnut infected with blight.
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- This man (lower right third) is dwarfed by a large surviving American chestnut in Kentucky.
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- TACF volunteers help plant a seed orchard at Seven Islands State Park in TN.
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- A freshly planted seedling at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC is surrounded by a cage to protect it from deer browse.
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- A TACF volunteer plants hybrid chestnut seeds in a greenhouse at the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park.
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- Progeny test orchard at Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virginia.
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- Meadowview Greenhouse and Shade Houses at Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virginia.
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- A dewy sunrise at Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virginia.
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- Students at SUNY’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry perform stem inoculations on small transgenic trees in New York.
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- Planting transgenic seedlings at an orchard in New York.
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- Pollination workshop at State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
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- Chestnut Giants, Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina, circa 1910. Courtesy of the Forest History Society.
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- The Family of James and Caroline Shelton pose by a large dead American chestnut tree in Tremont Falls, Tennessee, circa 1920. Courtesy of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Library.
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- Gathering Chestnuts, by JW Lauderbach, from The Art Journal of 1878.
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- Native range map of the American chestnut.
TACF Display Resources
TACF Writing Styles and Guidelines
How to Use the Media
This section of our site includes four “hints” or “tips” sections
- Publicity Hints – gives an overview of how a nonprofit can best work with the media.
- News Release Hints – discusses the basics for preparing and distributing a news release.
- Interviewing Hints – lists how to present your agency to the media.
- Media Relations Tips – covers other items that are important to developing a good working
- Statement to the Press in Q&A Format