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Volunteer Opportunity for Indiana TACF Chapter Members

When: Saturday, April 30, 2022. Work will start around 9:30 AM and last until 1:00 or 2:00 PM

What: Planting of 50 new pure American chestnut seedlings in the Indiana chapter’s germplasm conservation orchard near Kirklin, Indiana

Where: 3562 CR 730 S
Kirklin, IN
Clinton County

What to Bring: Gloves, shovel, water for drinking, lunch if you’ll be hungry.

Questions: Call or text Indiana Chapter president Glenn Kotnik 317 459-4443 or email
ten.tsacmoc@kintokag.

Directions: GPS is recommended. From route 421 from the south or north go to the town of Kirklin and look for highway 38 which you will take to the west. Follow 38 about 5 miles until you see a bridge over Sugar Creek. Just past the bridge, on the western side of the bridge turn southwest onto Scotland Road, a gravel road which follows the north side of Sugar Creek for several miles. Finally you come to a T-intersection with S. CR 400 E. Scotland Road Christian Church is on your right. Turn left here heading south. Note that S. CR 400 E. is called CR 200 E starting about a mile south in Boone County. Once on 400E. travel south only about 1/4 mile and turn right onto E CR 730 S. Then go a few hundred yards west until you see a gravel drive on the right and a mailbox with the address 3562 CR 730 S. Turn right (north) into the drive and park on the left where you see chestnut seedlings growing in tubes.

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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/

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Another way is put out a bunch of chestnuts, walnuts, acorns etc and let the squirrels plant them (they won't eat them all)!

I appreciate the effort, but you’re just planting a tree that will die young.

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

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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: https://rfoster.substack.com/p/one-big-tree #americanchestnut #nature #explore #fighttosave #story

Meadowview Research Farms is a huge part of our organization. As you can see, a lot happens here. Two of our barns are in serious need of repairs, as they can't be insured and aren't fit to hold our materials and gear.

Help us raise the barn and donate to our Spring Appeal!

Visit the link in our bio to donate!

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Will we ever see an American Chestnut again?

Check out this interview by World Teen where ME Chapter Vice President, Eva Butler, and our Director of Science Implementation, Cassie Stark, discuss the American chestnut and the role recurrent genomic selection has in saving it.

Watch the full video here: teen.gwnews.com/articles/genetic-research-may-save-the-american-chestnut

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And as you continue to study these trees you come to realize that some of these sprouts do live long enough to produce nuts. Then you realize that even in their native range there are a few trees that have survived with blight for many many decades and grow quite large. Then you come to learn that there are in fact many large trees that have been living with blight for many years and continue to grow and produce nuts. I’m sure this group will eventually crack this nut.

Would be nice if more people learn those facts. There is a lot of propaganda out there that tries to mute and downplay what you have discovered. Lately it looks like this group has cracked the nut with the RGS approach and "Best of Best" breeding concepts.

May Events! Field season is starting, so get out and help plant some chestnuts!

Visit the following link to register for an event: tacf.org/events/category/tacf/

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May Events! Field season is starting, so get out and help plant some chestnuts! Visit the following link to register for an event: https://tacf.org/events/category/tacf/ #americanchestnut #events #VA #WV #conservation #restoration #explorepageImage attachmentImage attachment

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Can they grow in Florida?

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