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The Photo of the Month, entitled "Peek-a-boo over an American chestnut leaf" was taken by Bill Powell, of SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, NY on July 2, 2012.
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 This news just in---Society of American Foresters is offering Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) for attending the Summit. Read more here
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Have you seen any Luna moths this summer? Try checking in your chestnut orchard. Their caterpillars forage on American chestnut leaves and the leaves of other nut and fruit trees and bushes.
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Emmy Award-winning Adventurer and Naturalist Patrick McMillan Will Deliver Keynote Speech at 2012 American Chestnut Summit
TACF is pleased to announce Dr. Patrick McMillan will be the keynote speaker for the 2012 American Chestnut Summit. Patrick is the host, co-creator, and writer of the popular and award-winning ETV nature program Expeditions with Patrick McMillan. Read more about Patrick's talk at the Summit and watch him at work in this video.
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This Month's Poll: I Spy Something Green...
 Tell us if you have ever seen an American chestnut in the wild. USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis Database estimates there are 464 million American chestnut trees currently surviving in our forests that are larger than 1 inch in diameter. Beetles, Not Worms
 Last month, over half of our readers correctly identified "worm holes" in chestnut lumber to be caused by chestnut timber worm beetles. The beetle, in its larval stage, tunnels into dead or dying chestnut wood. |
Pollinations and Inoculations Keep Staff and Volunteers Busy at Meadowview Research Farms
By TACF Chief Scientist Dr. Fred Hebard
 This June and July, staff and volunteers inoculated more than 11,000 trees, placed over 3,700 bags on flowers, collected pollen from 90 trees and sent out quite a few of those pollens to various chapters, primarily in the north. Follow the progress at TACF Meadowview Research Farms in Meadowview, Virgina. |
Faith in a Seed: TACF Members and Their Chestnuts
 These three stories are from TACF members who, as Henry David Thoreau suggests in the book Faith in a Seed, put faith in a chestnut seed and like all our members who grow chestnuts, are prepared to expect wonders. |
TACF Calendar
August 18 / The Lower Susquehanna Restoration Branch Event / contact: maryloub@hublaw.com
September 20 / Indiana Restoration Branch / Monroe Church of Christ, Plattsburg, IN
October 5-7 / TACF's Sara Fitzsimmons at the Paul Bunyan Show / Guernsey County Fairgrounds, Old Washington, OH October 13 / 3rd Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration / Hartwood in Abingdon, VA / contact: October 18-19 / TACF Fall Board Meeting / Crowne Plaza Resort, Asheville, NC
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The mission of The American Chestnut Foundation is to restore the American chestnut tree to our eastern woodlands to benefit our environment, our wildlife, and our society.
TACF is a 501(c)3 conservation organization headquartered in Asheville, NC. To learn about TACF and its national breeding program, visit www.acf.org. |
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