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Read the 2023 CT newsletter: The New Leaf
The Connecticut Chapter The New Leaf Spring 2023 Newsletter includes the articles The Dawn of Darling 58 Conservation & Community comes together for the American Chestnut Pollination Workshop at the Old Lyme Library A year in photo Read it...
Volunteer Opportunities
Outreach - we have several outreach events coming up later this month and in April. If you would like to help us spread our message to the public at any of these events please contact us. Outreach Coordinator - we are in need of a member to help coordinate volunteers...
CHESTNUT HARVEST SCHEDULE
CHESTNUT HARVESTING September 16th through September 23 Due to time constraints on my schedule this year, my time this harvest season will be limited. If anyone would like to help harvest burs during the last two weeks of September, please let us know. We will be...
Germplasm Conservation Orchard Planting Schedule
Germplasm Conservation Orchard Planting Schedule Volunteers are needed to help plant American Chestnut seeds in our Germplasm Conservation Orchards this month. Given the tremendous harvest we had last fall, we will need help in getting those nuts planted in the...
CT-TACF Nominating Committee Report
The CT-TACF Nominating Committee of Jane Harris, Bill Adamsen and John Baker are recommending the following candidates for the Board of Directors and Chapter Officers for 2022: 1. Nominations for the Board of Directors with a term ending in 2023: Renee Allen...
Nancy Spofford Yerkes Foundation makes gift to support the American Chestnut Orchards in Connecticut
The American Chestnut Foundation announced today a gift by the Nancy Spofford Yerkes Foundation, Inc to support our chapter for continued planting and monitoring of the American Chestnuts in Connecticut. Given the tremendous American chestnut harvest we had last fall...
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Have a great photo of an American chestnut tree, bloom, bur, leaf, restoration planting, volunteer event, or wildlife interaction? We'd love to see it! (Photo pictured taken by 2025 2rd place winner Eric Sizemore)
First Place receives:
- Their photo featured on the cover of a future issue of Chestnut magazine
- A one-year TACF Seed Level Membership (a $300 value!)
- TACF merchandise
Second and Third Place winners will receive:
- TACF swag
- Recognition alongside the first-place winner in the 2027 Spring/Summer issue of Chestnut.
Submit your entries by December 31, 2026.
Visit the following link for more information and complete submission details: tacf.org/2026-photo-contest/
#AmericanChestnut #PhotoContest #TACF #ChestnutMagazine #ConservationPhotography #ForestRestoration #NaturePhotography
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Josh Roudebush win it all bro I might know a few big boys for the shot
A bee enjoying a well deserved break after the chestnut pollination period. The tree it rests on is a hybrid castanea pumila x alabamensis (dwarf chestnut x Alabama chinquapin).
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Voles got my chestnut, planted spring 2025
August Events! Double check with your states Chapter about events in your area.
Visit the following link for more information on the events: tacf.org/events/category/tacf/
#americanchestnut #Connecticut #northcarolina #SouthCarolina #getinvolved
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In a recent article for The Conversation, Dr. Steve Strauss discusses how advances in genomics and biotechnology are creating new opportunities to support chestnut restoration.
We're pleased to see perspectives from a longtime TACF collaborator. Steve served on our Science Advisory Review Committee in 2018 and currently has a pending proposal with TACF to improve genetic transformation methods for chestnut.
Give the article a read and let us know what part of chestnut restoration you're most excited about: theconversation.com/new-genetic-approaches-raise-hopes-for-restoring-the-american-chestnut-to-its...
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Somewhere, waiting discovery deep inside the remote part of a forest towers a thriving blight resistant nut filled American Chestnut (surrounded by dead ones just so we know it was exposed and surviving). We can hope. Taking inspiration from the Dogwood saga.
Professors at S.U.N.Y E.S.F put a wheat gene in to Chestnuts years ago and have growing them
I thought the blight only killed the tree above the ground and not the root system that's why the chestnut resprouts and grows until it gets a scar on it and the blight kills the sprouted tree back down to the ground leaving more viable root system to sprout again in the future.
Unlike most forest trees that rely mostly on wind, American chestnuts recruit insects too.
#americanchestnut #EnvironmentalEducation #pollinator #nativetrees #dronefootage
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Okay, who was in our Monocacy Orchard. MDTACF.