Chestnuts Find a New Home on a Popular Trail in Michigan

Published February 16, 2017
A freshly planted sapling is surrounded by a cage to deter predators.

A freshly planted sapling is surrounded by a cage to deter predators.

Each cage has a plaque that identifies the tree and who the tree is donated by.

Each cage has a plaque that identifies the tree and who the tree is donated by.

Volunteers carry tools, caging material, and trees on ATV's as they stop at each fitness station to do the plantings.

Volunteers carry tools, caging material, and trees on ATV’s and trucks as they stop at each fitness station to do the plantings.

Buchanan city leaders met to sign the germplasm agreement.

Sara Fitzsimmons in 2005 with Jim Gage, Dr Phil Arnold, Dr Robert Gregg

2005
Sara Fern Fitzsimmons with Jim Gage, Dr Phil Arnold, & Dr Robert Gregg

2006, Sara Fitzsimmons pollinates at Stockers

2006
Sara pollinating at Stockers, PA

Sara rating cankers at Thorpewood

Sara rating cankers at Thorpewood, MD

Sara at the 25th Annual TACF meeting

2008
Sara at the 25th Annual TACF Meeting

Sara and the Graves tree

2009
Sara in the PSU Graves Orchard

Sara Fern Fitzsimmons in the Glenn Swank stump, 2009

2009
Sara in the Glenn Swank stump, PA

Sara at the International Chestnut Symposium, 2012

2012
Sara at the International Chestnut Symposium

Sara in Vermont

2014
Sara with Harmony Dalgleish and the Berlin American chestnut in Vermont

Kendra and Sara in the field

Sara and Kendra Collins working in the field

Sara presenting at the 2022 TACF Spring Meeting

2022
Sara presenting at TACF’s Spring Meeting

Sara (in the rocker) with TACF staff at the Fall Meeting

2023
Sara (in the rocker) with TACF staff at the Fall Meeting

Sara Fern Fitzsimmons

2024
Sara in the Penn State greenhouses