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The Connecticut Chapter Spring 2025 Newsletter includes the articles
- Tribute to John C. Baker
- Farewell and thank you for all, Kendra!
- Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Win TACF Partner Award
- Student Presentations at 2024 Chestnut Symposium
- Protecting Chestnut Seedlings from Deer Browse using a Slash Wall
The Connecticut Chapter Spring 2024 Newsletter includes the articles
- Celebrating the 40 years of TACF in Hamden
- Backcross Breeding Program Update
- Planting Chestnuts in a Colonial Setting
- Breeding Phytophthera cinamoni Resistance into our Chestnut Orchards
- Volunteer Opportunities
- And Charlie, the rowing chestnut!
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- CT-TACF Spring 2023 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2022 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2021 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2020 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2018 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2009 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2008 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Autumn 2006 Newsletter
- CT-TACF Spring 2006 Newsletter
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🌰 "The evolving story of New Jersey’s chestnuts" by Alison Mitchell
Check out this article that features insights from our North Central Regional Science Coordinator, Lake Graboski, and also highlights New Jersey Nut Farms’ separate hybridization efforts—showing the range of work underway to bring back the American chestnut.
Click the following link to view the full story: www.newsbreak.com/south-jersey-media-302714994/4444458578919-the-evolving-story-of-new-jersey-s-c...
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I have one of the original American chestnuts growing on my land.. it grows to about 12 feet tall and it dies. it comes back from the root and does the cycle again. it's done this for the last 63 years.
Are there not more trees in America now than in the 1700s?
Resilience.
Learn more about this remarkable standing American chestnut in the article “We The People: How Iowa Is Part of the Effort to Save the Rare American Chestnut Tree.” Courtesy of Grace Vance and KCRG.
Visit: www.ktiv.com/2026/01/12/we-people-how-iowa-is-part-effort-save-rare-american-chestnut-tree/
#americanchestnut #chestnuts #restoration #conservation #explorepage
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Georgia has a stand of chestnut trees in a secret location. Can they borrow some pollen from this tree to add to their breeding collection? They need a varied gene pool for the future.
A guy named Bill Deeter has just recently observed that trees that have crown gall seem to be warding off the blight. Im really hoping that this will bring back the longevity of the American Chestnut
My Neighbors have a vet old chestnut tree - they have contacted several conservation groups about getting a sapling of a second . So it would produce chestnuts once again-
A month ago, our President and CEO, Michael Goergen, got to visit the New York Botanical Garden and see the original documentation of chestnut blight taken from a tree in the Bronx Zoo. Feeling a sense of inspiration from the experience, Michael wrote, "Holding that bark brings both grief and resolve. Grief for what was lost. Resolve for the work ahead.
Because for the first time since 1905, we are no longer documenting decline.
We are documenting return.
The American chestnut is not a memory. It is a restoration mission and The American Chestnut Foundation is building the tools and partnerships to finish what Merkel, Murrill, and others could not.
Seeing the original blight records didn’t make the work feel more challenging. It made it feel inevitable.
Restoration is the next chapter. We get to write it."
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Whoo hoo! Sorry, you were not the first to know this. The Chestnut Lady.
Our New England Regional Science Coordinator, Deni Ranguelova, made an appearance on the podcast "Across the Fence" to discuss the American chestnut tree and why we are working to restore them.
Check out the podcast on Youtube at youtu.be/c9EeOc5WIaE?si=80CQtoY4-qeQhjtI
#americanchestnut #chestnuts #podcast #history #restoration #conservation #nature #forestry #explorepage
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So like Covid?
This was all because someone in upstate Delaware thought it would be a good idea to grow a Chinese chestnut in their yard so they could show it off to their friends.
😂
New year, new opportunities! Now’s the perfect time to get involved with the American chestnut. 🌱
Check out our January & February events and join the movement!
Visit out events calendar for more info on each event
#americanchestnut #events #volunteer #pennsylvania #castaneapa #Maine #rhodeisland #pennstate #chestnuts #explorepage
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