This news article out of central New Jersey explains the efforts being made in that area to restore the American chestnut. The New Hopewell Environmental Commission has teamed up with the PA/NJ-TACF Chapter to plant trees in Hopewell Township’s Woolsey Park. Stephen Hoy, orchard manager at Penn State University, was interviewed about TACF’s long-term project to breed the best genetic lines of American chestnut trees. Read the full story.
Helping American chestnut trees recover from blight
Published January 3, 2019
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Sara Fern Fitzsimmons with Jim Gage, Dr Phil Arnold, & Dr Robert Gregg
2006
Sara pollinating at Stockers, PA
Sara rating cankers at Thorpewood, MD
2008
Sara at the 25th Annual TACF Meeting
2009
Sara in the PSU Graves Orchard
2009
Sara in the Glenn Swank stump, PA
2012
Sara at the International Chestnut Symposium
2014
Sara with Harmony Dalgleish and the Berlin American chestnut in Vermont
Sara and Kendra Collins working in the field
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Sara presenting at TACF’s Spring Meeting
2023
Sara (in the rocker) with TACF staff at the Fall Meeting
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Sara in the Penn State greenhouses