This is the agenda for the upcoming 2024 CT Chapter Annual Meeting, held on Sunday, March 24th, 2024
10:00 am – Annual Meeting
Minutes of prior annual meeting
Treasurer’s Report
President’s Report
Committee Reports:
Outreach and Education Committee
Research Committee
Communications Committee
Germplasm Committee
Nomination and Election of Directors and Officers
Old Business — Insurance
New Business – Volunteer waivers and releases
TACF Fall Meetings at Cromwell Marriott, October 24th-27th
Approximately 11:00 am – “Braiding Traditional and Modern Science Toward American Chestnut Restoration” – SaraFitzsimmons, Chief Conservation Officer at TACF.
12:00 pm – Lunch
12:30 pm — Board of Directors Meeting (Open to all)
Minutes of prior board meeting
Report and approval of Budget
Report and discussion of Orchard Management
Breeding Orchards – Awaiting Genotyping results for Great Mt. Forest and Salem.
Awaiting Blight1 or 2 ratings for Litchfield.
Inoculation at Middletown
Seed Orchards – Plant seeds from Woodbridge orchard crossed with Phytophthera
resistant pollen.
Grading first round of inoculations. Thinning of nonselected plots.
Germplasm Conservation Orchards – New Orchard with Ridgefield C.C. at McKeon
Farm and private landowners in Harwinton and Killingworth.
Continue plantings at Wilton, Woodbridge, Denison and a few replacement
plantings at Essex, Haddam Neck, Manchester, and Wallingford.
Talks with Heritage L.T. in Torrington for new orchard in 2025.
Possible pollination of CAES Blight1 or 2 rated trees; Phytophthera resistant trees.
Report by the Outreach and Education Committee (Florian)
- Earth Day at Woodbury, April 20th
- White Memorial Foundation Presentation April 20th
- Berlin LT Presentation, May 1st
- Science Plant Day at CAES Hamden, August 7th
- Durham Fair, September 26th -29th
- Documentary screenings.
Report by the Research Committee (Florian and Jack S.)
Ongoing Chestnut Bee Surveys
Report by the Communications Committee (Florian)
Report by the Germplasm Committee (Jack M. and Jack S.)
Old Business- Insurance purchase made during special meeting.
New Business- Chapter Planning Template (Kendra and Catherine).
Bylaws Committee
