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GA-TACF’s Annual Meeting April 12 2025
The American Chestnut Foundation Georgia Chapter (GA-TACF) Notice of Annual Meeting GA-TACF will hold its annual meeting on April 12, 2025, starting at 10:00 AM at Kennesaw State University (see directions below). Chapter members are invited and encouraged to attend,...
GA-TACF Chestnut Seedling Distribution Event!
GA-TACF will hold a chestnut seedling distribution event on Saturday February 8 from 12 noon - 5 pm at River Remedy Brewing, Rome, GA https://www.riverremedybrewing.com/home Most of the seedlings will be hybrids derived from the TACF backcross breeding program. Most...
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...
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Last week under the leadership of Karrie Ann Fadroski and Jack Rogers, another orchard work day was held at UNG's Hurricane Creek chestnut orchard. This is the site where about 100 trees were planted via direct-seeding in March. This relatively new project is a site where trees are being evaluated for their resistance to Phytophthora root rot (PRR), a devastating root rot disease sometimes called black root rot or black ink disease. Part of this round of work included weed control and part was maintenance of the electric deer fence.
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Saturday's annual GA-TACF meeting at KSU was a great success! Please check out some of the photos from the day which included several presentations on the campus followed by lunch and a field tour at KSU's Field Station.
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Thanks for allowing the public to attend ~ this was super interesting!
Come to this weekend's meeting and get a chance to meet Dr. Scott Merkle, the winner of UGA's 2025 Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award based partly on his work with American chestnut. See our separate post about the meeting.
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NEWS Scott Merkle Posted on Mar 21, 2025 by akatki 0 Likes Lamar Dodd Creative Research Award 2025 Scott Merkle, professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, is a leading researc...0 CommentsComment on Facebook