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New Jersey American Chestnut Meeting
Invitation to a New Jersey American Chestnut Meeting Saturday March 11, 2006 Prallsville Mills, Stockton, NJ The Pennsylvania Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (PA-TACF) invites you to a general informational meeting for those who would like to assist in...
Lecture on Restoring the American Chestnut in Connecticut
Bill Adamsen, President of the CT Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation will lecture and host a discussion on the natural history of the chestnut, and the Foundation's efforts to capture the diverse genetics of local trees in their breeding efforts. This...
Lecture on Restoring the American Chestnut
(This lecture date has passed) All but eliminated from New England forests by the chestnut blight of 1908-13, the stately American Chestnut is making a comeback thanks to a cross-breeding program that soon hopes to produce blight-resistant trees. In a Pequot Museum...
A Brief Summary of Chestnut Canker Biocontrol
By Timothy McKechnie Since the Connecticut chapter would like to preserve mother trees long enough for breeding purposes, there has been some interest in biocontrol. Most people in TACF, especially Connecticut (home of Dr. Anagnostakis) are familiar with three forms...
Field Trip – the Graves Tree
By Sara Fitzsimmons In mid-November of 2005, I had the pleasure of visiting the Connecticut Chapter and presenting at their Annual Meeting. Being sponsored by Yale, most specifically the School of Forestry and Environmental Resources, the meeting was held in New...
Chestnuts and the Holidays
Many Connecticut members are enjoying the onset of cold weather knowing that while not much can be done in the field, these days present the opportunity for planning next years plantings and pollination, and dreaming of where our efforts will be in five and ten years....
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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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