An article about longtime TACF member Bart Chezar and his tireless efforts toward American chestnut restoration has been featured in the Culture section of the Audubon website. Bart, along with volunteers, including elementary school students, has planted multiple trees in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. He shared 18 seedlings with the author who is nurturing them until Bart is ready to plant them in Brooklyn or upstate New York. Read the full story.
Sheltering in Place in Manhattan—With 18 American Chestnut Saplings
Published May 22, 2020
2005
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
2022
Sara presenting at TACF’s Spring Meeting
2023
Sara (in the rocker) with TACF staff at the Fall Meeting
2024
Sara in the Penn State greenhouses