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2026 Annual Meeting Recap
The VT-NH Chapter Annual Meeting took place on May 9, 2026 at Fox State Forest in Hillsborough, NH. The day opened with a welcome by outgoing president Gary Hawley, then a short history of Fox Forest by Inge Seaboyer with the NH Division of Forests and Lands. Michael...
New London, NH Conservation Commission wins American Chestnut Foundation 2025 Partner Award
The New London, NH Conservation Commission (NLCC) is the proud winner of The American Chestnut Foundation Partner’s Award for 2025. This award recognizes groups that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the mission of restoring the American Chestnut tree to...
New London Conservation Commission Seedling Project Update
The New London Conservation Commission potted 93 American Chestnut seed nuts and delivered them to Spring Ledge Farm (SLF) in New London on April 10, 2025. SLF has several commercial year-round greenhouses and the owner, Greg Berger, offered NLCC some space in this...
May 2025 Newsletter
President's Corner This will be my last message to you, as I have recently been given the gift of a grandson in NYC and have found a wonderful place to live in Emmaus, PA on a mountain overlooking a conserved valley of agricultural land. I’ll have a chance to see my...
2025 Free Nut Offer
Upcoming Free American Chestnut Seed Offer Spring is close which means that the VT/NH Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation will once again offer free American chestnut seeds to Chapter members. Details will be sent later. If you have related questions at...
November 24 Newsletter
President's Corner By Evan Fox, VT/NH Chapter President What a difference a year makes! Last year we bemoaned the effects of a late May frost which seriously changed plans for fieldwork. But we pollinated with what we believed was Darling 58 pollen at...
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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.
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#americanchestnut #chestnutblight #ForestEcology #nativespecies #ForestConservation
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American chestnuts produce separate male flowers and bisexual flowers on the same tree?! What a fascinating reproductive strategy for a species once dominant across eastern forests. 🌿
#americanchestnut #treefacts #treeidentification #ForestEcology #SaveOurForests
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I have had these on the farm for years
BeeKeeper Mango
From looking at the leaves that is NOT an American chestnut. The leaves do not have the good fishhook profile on the edges, and from what can see they look like Japanese chestnut leaves which have small feathery edges.
Small Stem Assays involve inoculating young chestnut stems with the blight fungus and monitoring the resulting cankers, allowing researchers to assess how well different trees respond to infection.
#educational #Informative #americanchestnut #fieldwork #explore
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You don't find out if the tree is resistant until it matures. That could be a decade later.
I am always amazed how big you all can grow them in 1 year. That is how big my second year seed8 gs always are!
Last week, staff at TACF’s national office in Asheville joined Carolinas Chapter President Peggy McDonald, husband Bob, and Chapter board member Jon Taylor for a hike at Albert Mountain in Western NC to visit wild American chestnut trees in search of flowering catkins.
During their venture, the team also came across a few cool amphibians: a red-legged salamander, which only inhabits portions of the southern Appalachian Mountains, and a red-spotted newt, which is much more common, but its brilliant red is stunning!
Of course, the biggest thrill was seeing large surviving chestnut trees and, as the day wrapped up, collecting some beautiful catkins that were high in the canopy of a tree on the way down the mountain. Pollen collected from the catkins will be used in TACF’s southern region breeding program.
#hike #nature #getoutside #americanchestnut #pollination
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Whoa. Fascinating that some mature American Chestnuts have survived the blight. Taking pollen from these survivors is such a great idea. I didn't realize there were any survivors in NC.
Ils sont en fleur au Québec aussi, ça fait du bien de les voir grandir.
Fantastic
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