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Strategic Vision
The Annual Meeting on March 14th features an excellent program with Prof. Fenny Dane as our keynote speaker, and excellent presentations by TACF Science Coordinators Sara Fitzsimmons and Kendra Gurney. If terrestrial ecology, species restoration, or simply the...
A Chestnut Stump Oddity
I thought I would share three small file size pics of what I believe to be a chestnut stump and its "companion tree" that is growing on a mountainside in East Granby, CT. The remnant stump measures 30 inches in diameter at the widest point, which I'm guessing is...
2008 Pollination Report
This summer, after five trees we hoped to pollinate did not work out, we went forward with creating lines from four new trees and made two re-pollinations. Between June 16 and June 29 flowers were pre-bagged to protect them from stray Chinese or hybrid chestnut...
Freinkel Awarded Nat'l Outdoor Book Award
Congratulations to Susan Freinkel, this years recipient of the National Outdoor Book Award for the Natural History category for her title American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree, published by the University of California Press in Nov. 2007....
Chestnuts in China
I hope you get the chance to look at Sara Fitzsimmon's blog about the joint US/China scientific research visit to China. Sara blogged about the journey this past autumn which included Dr. Kim Steiner, Dr. Fred Paillet, Dr. Fred Hebard and Sara Fitzsimmons. The...
Chestnut Poster and Frame
A discussion with Sara Fitzsimmons got me thinking about creating this poster and frame. I'd been thinking about this for some time and had been limited by the ability to actually get the chestnut wood for the frame. Sara suggested she might be able to help find...
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We love helping students get excited about, and involved in, the American chestnut tree!
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Save this for when you plant your chestnuts! All you need is a deep pot, well-draining soil, and proper seed orientation for success. 🌱
Want to learn more about growing chestnuts? Visit this link to learn more: tacf.org/growing-chestnuts/
#planting #growing #americanchestnut #plantingseason #explore
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I appreciate the effort, but you’re just planting a tree that will die young.
Another way is put out a bunch of chestnuts, walnuts, acorns etc and let the squirrels plant them (they won't eat them all)!
Where do you get the American chestnuts?
I highly recommend checking out this article by Robert Foster, in which he reminisces about the time he helped save a large, standing American chestnut tree. He also shares an older article that tells the full story of the tree and the effort to preserve it. The original piece, published in American Forests magazine, is titled “Saving Something of Value” by Herbert E. McLean and is copied below his introduction.
Click the following link to check it out: rfoster.substack.com/p/one-big-tree
#americanchestnut #nature #explore #fighttosave #story
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