by Jules Smith | Jul 22, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on Friday, August 21 at 11:30AM will be a virtual workshop on Metabolomics 101, presented by Dr. Jeanne Romero-Severson Participants can join one of two ways: Computer (via Zoom Webinar) The meeting will open 15 minutes prior to...
by Jules Smith | Jul 22, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on Friday, August 7 at 11:30AM will be a virtual workshop on American chestnut restoration and reintroduction plantings, presented by Stacy Clark, USFS forester. Participants can join one of two ways: Computer (via Zoom Webinar)...
by Jules Smith | Jul 22, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on Friday, August 7 at 11:30AM will be a virtual workshop on American chestnut restoration and reintroduction plantings, presented by Stacy Clark, USFS forester. Participants can join one of two ways: Computer (via Zoom Webinar)...
by Jules Smith | Jul 14, 2020 | eSprout
Noah Howie (back) measuring trees while Marshall Lynch inoculates them at the Milner Backcross Orchard. Inoculated stem tip temporarily covered with a sealed plastic straw to keep the inoculum moist. Frank Milner posing with one of his three-year-old backcross...
by Jules Smith | Jul 14, 2020 | eSprout
On June 27, the CT-TACF Chapter held a chestnut hike along with the Wyndham Land Trust (WLT) and the Meshomasic Hiking Club to search for flowering American chestnut trees at the WLT Bull Hill Preserve. Last September, one of our members, Jack Morris, came across a...
by Jules Smith | Jul 10, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on July 24 at 11:30AM will be a virtual workshop on Plant Pathology for Non-Plant Pathologists presented by Bruce Levine, board director for the MD-TACF Chapter. Participants can join one of two ways: Computer (via Zoom Webinar)...
by Jules Smith | Jul 10, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on July 24 at 11:30AM will be a virtual workshop on Plant Pathology for Non-Plant Pathologists presented by Bruce Levine, board director for the MD-TACF Chapter. Participants can join one of two ways: Computer (via Zoom Webinar)...
by Jules Smith | Jul 8, 2020 | External News
In Defense of Plants podcast recently featured an episode about the American chestnut tree, interviewing Sara Fitzsimmons, TACF director of restoration. Sara shares the story of the American chestnut, the multiple benefits of the tree and impact of its loss, and...
by Jules Smith | Jun 30, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on July 10 at 11:30AM will offer a virtual pollination workshop. This educational experience will be presented by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s American Chestnut Research and Restoration...
by Jules Smith | Jun 30, 2020
TACF’s next live Chestnut Chat on July 10 at 11:30AM will offer a virtual pollination workshop. This educational experience will be presented by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s American Chestnut Research and Restoration...
