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The Connecticut Chapter Spring Newsletter 2026 features a brand new look, matching TACF new branding, and includes the articles:
- Welcome to… the Chestnut City!
- Essex Land Trust & Chestnut Orchard at Cross Lots Preserve
- Chestnut Breeding Program Update
- A Lifelong Passion for The American Chestnut
- CT Chapter’s 2025 Intern, Odeth Sandoval
- TACF Honors the Winners of the 2025 Volunteer Service Awards
- Volunteer Opportunities
The Connecticut Chapter Spring 2025 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 2024 Newsletter
- 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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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.
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#americanchestnut #chestnutblight #ForestEcology #nativespecies #ForestConservation
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American chestnuts produce separate male flowers and bisexual flowers on the same tree?! What a fascinating reproductive strategy for a species once dominant across eastern forests. 🌿
#americanchestnut #treefacts #treeidentification #ForestEcology #SaveOurForests
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I have had these on the farm for years
BeeKeeper Mango
From looking at the leaves that is NOT an American chestnut. The leaves do not have the good fishhook profile on the edges, and from what can see they look like Japanese chestnut leaves which have small feathery edges.
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.
#educational #Informative #americanchestnut #fieldwork #explore
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You don't find out if the tree is resistant until it matures. That could be a decade later.
I am always amazed how big you all can grow them in 1 year. That is how big my second year seed8 gs always are!
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.
#hike #nature #getoutside #americanchestnut #pollination
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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