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Message from the New Georgia Chapter President
Hello! I’m thrilled to introduce myself as your new president of the Georgia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation! I was honored to be elected at the annual member meeting at Reinhardt University May 5, 2018. I will be succeeding Dr. John French, who was our...
Berry-led research on blight-resistant chestnut trees being developed in north Georgia
Marty Cipollini, TACF’s GA-Chapter science coordinator and professor of biology at Berry College in Rome, GA is working diligently with the help of others to revive the American chestnut through painstaking development of potentially blight-resistant trees. The late...
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The newest edition of the Georgia Chapter newsletter is now available online! Click the link below to view the e-Newsletter and read about the latest news of GA-TACF. The Sprout - Summer 2015
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American Chestnut Now Potentially Resistant to Blight and Root-rot
Greenville, SC—Dr. Joe James of Seneca, SC may not have been a Boy Scout himself, but when the Scouts came calling last year about getting an American chestnut tree planted in Greenville, they knew that Joe was their man. Joe, a longtime member of The American...
Videos from the 2016 Annual Meeting
Many thanks to everyone who attended our 2016 Annual Meeting! We had a great turnout and a fantastic set of speakers. Thanks to the UGA Forestry and Natural Resources School, the presentations given at the meeting were recorded. So if you couldn't make the meeting,...
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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