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Links to Future or Recent Events (2008):

At the TN Chapter meeting held at the Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville, TN on Saturday, August 23, 2008, several fine presentations were given; the hot pizza and fellowship were also terrific.  To see the Power Point presentations  Click here.

Hill Craddock, Martin Cipollini, Don Davis and Bethany Baxter represented The American
Chestnut Foundation at the Society for Conservation Biology meeting held in Chattanooga,
TN on July 13-17, 2008.  Click here for a photo.

Photos of chestnut pollination work (2008)

TN-TACF members will have a chestnut exhibit at the Conservation Biology meeting which will be held at the Chattanooga Convention Center.  The meeting runs from Sunday, July 13 to Thursday, July 17.  According to Dr. Hill Craddock at U. T./Chattanooga, the Society for Conservation Biology’s Annual Meeting is recognized as the most important global meeting for conservation professionals and students. SCB is an international professional organization dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving the Earth’s biological diversity. The Society is a global community with more than 12,000 members world-wide and comprises a wide range of people interested in the conservation and study of biological diversity: resource managers, educators, government and private conservation workers, and students. To participate, or for more information about the 2008 SCB meeting and TN-TACF's exhibit, please visit the SCB web pages at www.conbio.org

The TN Chapter's annual summer meeting will be hosted by Ed Yost at Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville on Aug. 23, 2008.  More details will be provided later.  These meetings are always informative and a lot of fun.  To learn more about the Ijam's Nature center, visit http://www.ijams.org/ 

TN-TACF officers, Greg Weaver, Clint Neel, and Sean Fisher set up a chestnut display providing information on the American chestnut at the Earth Day festivals in Oak Ridge (April 12) and Nashville (April 19).  Click here

On April 22, 2008, chestnut seedlings were planted on the campus of Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN to celebrate Earth Day.  The following link has photos and summarizes the events.  http://www.trevecca.edu/info/newsandevents?id=3171 

A fine article by the UT Daily Beacon (Apr. 14, 2008) on restoration of American chestnut trees on abandoned coal mines in the Appalachians: http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=53389

Carol Moore constructed an interesting webpage on the planting of American chestnut trees by Elk Valley 7th and 8th graders as an Arbor Day celebration; they were planted on National Coal's mining site on Zeb Mountain (Apr. 7, 2008)-- click on: http://www.coalcreekaml.com/ElkValleyArborDay2008.htm

More press coverage of the Zeb Mountain chestnut planting and the potential for future restoration of the American chestnut on abandoned coal mine lands:  
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033101263.html
Also a video narrated by Barry Thacker on this subject may be accessed at:  http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/chestnut_trees/index.html

(Thanks to Clint Neel for providing the links)

Joe Schibig provided a Community College Day exhibit on the American chestnut during Legislative Day at the Legislative Plaza in Nashville on March 19, 2008, and on April 3, 2008 he and four of his students set up a chestnut display at the Science Expo held at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, TN. The following Power Point presentation was shown at these events: Chestnut trees and chestnut people

TN-TACF will have a booth at the Oak Ridge Earth Day festival on April 12, and the Nashville Earth Day festival on April 19.  Come see us on Earth Day. Here is a link to info about the Oak Ridge event: http://www.oakridger.com/stories/020108/com_242806233.shtml 
And here is a link for Nashville's Earth Day:
http://www.nashville.gov/earthday/

The March 14 chestnut planting on Zeb Mountain makes the news. Click link below: http://www.coalcreekaml.com/ChestnutZeb.htm

To see a Mar. 10, 2008 article in the Knoxville News-Sentinel about the reforestation of strip mined land with chestnut and other hardwoods on Zeb Mountain in Campbell Co., TN. click here

A Power Point presentation of TN-TACF Chapter members installing a chestnut sign and planting American chestnut trees at the Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville  (Saturday, February 23, 2008) is now posted. Directions to the Ijams Nature Center are at http://www.ijams.org/about/directions.html 

A nice American chestnut is discovered by hikers in the Smokey Mountains.
(posted Mar. 7, 2008)

Jack Torkelson and Joe Schibig harvest chestnut wood from a dead American chestnut tree in Metcalfe Co., KY (January, 2008).

On March 14, 2008, The Coal Creek Watershed Foundation (CCWF), the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI) and The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) are partnering in the planting of hundreds of American chestnut seed on National  Coal Corporations's reclaimed mine sites in Campbell County.  For more information go to:
http://www.coalcreekaml.com/AmericanChestnut.htm

To see the excellent Power Point presentations given at the January 19, 2008 meeting of the TN Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation as well as photos click here.

Bill Rickman selects a site for his chestnut orchard in the outer basin of north central Tennessee (click here to see photos, Feb. 2008)

"On a mission to save the chestnut tree" Community College Times, Jan. 18, 2008

To see activities before 2008, click on  Meetings
and Events


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Please contribute to the TN-TACF Orchard Fund--your financial support will
help restore blight-resistant American chestnut trees to our forests, parks, and backyards.  Click here for details.

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The Tennessee Chapter of The American Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the restoration of the American chestnut tree to the forests and woodlots of Tennessee.

Chestnut breeding in Tennessee has been greatly aided by support from the National Forest Foundation. The National Forest Foundation, chartered by Congress, engages America in community-based and national programs that promote the health and public enjoyment of the 192 million-acre National Forest System, and accepts and administers private gifts of funds and land for the benefit of the National Forests.

President of the TN Chapter:  Greg Weaver  weaverpond@aol.com
Web Master:  Joe Schibig 
joe.schibig@volstate.edu

DEDICATED TO THE RESTORATION OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT