CT-TACF Nominating Committee Report

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Small Stem Assays involve inoculating young chestnut stems with the blight fungus and monitoring the resulting cankers, allowing researchers to assess how well different trees respond to infection.

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Last week, staff at TACF’s national office in Asheville joined Carolinas Chapter President Peggy McDonald, husband Bob, and Chapter board member Jon Taylor for a hike at Albert Mountain in Western NC to visit wild American chestnut trees in search of flowering catkins.

During their venture, the team also came across a few cool amphibians: a red-legged salamander, which only inhabits portions of the southern Appalachian Mountains, and a red-spotted newt, which is much more common, but its brilliant red is stunning!

Of course, the biggest thrill was seeing large surviving chestnut trees and, as the day wrapped up, collecting some beautiful catkins that were high in the canopy of a tree on the way down the mountain. Pollen collected from the catkins will be used in TACF’s southern region breeding program.

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Whoa. Fascinating that some mature American Chestnuts have survived the blight. Taking pollen from these survivors is such a great idea. I didn't realize there were any survivors in NC.

Ils sont en fleur au Québec aussi, ça fait du bien de les voir grandir.

Fantastic

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5 days ago

Trying to figure out if you found an American chestnut or a Chinese chestnut? These identifiers should help!

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I love it when the music is up front and the narration is in the background. Awesome.

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Every business in every city should have to plant a tree every year as part of their yearly licensing.

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Mary Armentrout-Acord

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Do you have a favorite nature quote?

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