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GA-TACF Annual Meeting May 11, 2024
The American Chestnut Foundation Georgia Chapter (GA-TACF) Annual Meeting Announcement The Georgia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation will convene for its annual meeting on May 11th, 2024 at 10:00 AM, at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources,...
GA-TACF By-laws Update
Copied below is a draft of updated by-laws for GA-TACF that will be presented and adopted at the annual meeting at UGA, May 11. Many thanks to Scott Laseter for re-drafting these by-laws. Please excuse formatting errors and use horizontal scroll bars to read through...
American chestnut seeds available from GA-TACF
NOTE: We have allocated all of the seeds from the 2023 seed crop! We hope to run this promotion again next year (January 2025). Special offer for new or renewing GA-TACF members If you join TACF, renew a lapsed membership, or renew early plus add a donation of at...
40th Anniversary Celebration: Best End Brewing Atlanta, GA
Help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of The American Chestnut Foundation! Best End Brewing Sunday, November 12, 2 – 6 PM 1036 White Street Atlanta, GA 30310 Live Music! Cool American chestnut merch! American chestnuts to grow! Prizes! Great Best End beer and food...
GA-TACF Annual Meeting May 13 2023
Calling all Georgia American Chestnut enthusiasts! The Georgia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (GA-TACF) will hold its annual state meeting on May 13th, 2023, in Dahlonega. The meeting will be held at the University of North Georgia Health and Natural...
GA-TACF Science Progress 2022
2022 was a very productive year for the Georgia chapter of TACF and its many citizen volunteers. Here is a quick summary of progress, starting with a summary of what we've been able to accomplish in the breeding program since 2006. Seed type Crosses American chestnut...
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Please join us at this Saturday's screening of TACF's award-winning film entitled "Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut" at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center (GEHC), 2020 Clean Water, Buford GA. Sat. Sept. 21, 2 - 4 pm. Q&A with GA-TACF's Dr. Martin Cipollini immediately after the film. The event is free but attendees are asked to register beforehand at secure.rec1.com/GA/gwinnett-county-parks-recreation/catalog (Click on Catalog then September to find the event).
GEHC is a free science and history museum with many things to explore! Visitors can register for the film AND plan to spend a few hours there! A Herpetology Lab, 10 miles of walking trails, a living stream next to the building with turtles, frogs, fish, and dragonfly lifecycles within. A STEAM Lab (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) for children of all ages to explore, and the museum is a beautifully designed LEED certified green building.
Upcoming in October (details to follow soon!):
Oct. 3 – Chestnutoberfest and “Chestnut Revival Brown Ale” beer release, River Remedy Brewing, Rome, 5 – 9 pm. Join us to learn about American chestnut restoration in GA while enjoying live music, roasted chestnuts, and chestnut brew!
Oct. 8 to 10 time frame. Volunteer event at Berry College. We will be screening hybrid chestnut seedlings for blight resistance. This is a follow-up to the experiment we set up this summer with volunteer assistance.
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Here are just a couple of photos of the Elachee Nature Center Wildlife Festival. GA-TACF's Dale Higdon helped educate the public about the plight of the American chestnut and what we are doing in GA to help bring the species back.
Our next big event will be a screening of TACF's award-winning film entitled "Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut" at the Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center (GEHC), 2020 Clean Water, Buford GA this Sat. Sept. 21, 2 - 4 pm. Q&A with GA-TACF's Dr. Martin Cipollini immediately after the film. The event is free but attendees are asked to register beforehand at secure.rec1.com/GA/gwinnett-county-parks-recreation/catalog (Click on Catalog then September to find the event).
GEHC is a free science and history museum with many things to explore! Visitors can register for the film AND plan to spend a few hours there! A Herpetology Lab, 10 miles of walking trails, a living stream next to the building with turtles, frogs, fish, and dragonfly lifecycles within. A STEAM Lab (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) for children of all ages to explore, and the museum is a beautifully designed LEED certified green building.
Upcoming in October (details to follow soon!):
Oct. 3 – Chestnutoberfest and “Chestnut Revival Brown Ale” beer release, River Remedy Brewing, Rome, 5 – 9 pm. Live music, roasted chestnuts, chestnut brew!
Oct. 8 to 10 time frame. Volunteer event at Berry College. We will be screening hybrid chestnut seedlings for blight resistance.
The American Chestnut Foundation
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People sometimes want to see mature American chestnuts in full fruit. Well, here are a few of our best blight-tolerant backcross trees at the Berry College orchard. These were inoculated with a highly virulent strain of the blight in 2013, so are now 12 years post-inoculation. They are about 40 - 45 ft tall and are heavily laden with fruit this year probably due to a wet early start to the season. Those with white pollination bags on them have been used in our Best X Best breeding program whereby the most blight-tolerant trees are purposely bred with one another.
To learn more about this program, please attend one of our upcoming events advertised elsewhere on this page. The next one is at Elachee Nature Center on Sat. Sept. 14. The American Chestnut Foundation
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