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Links to Future or Recent Events: 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/ 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: 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
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 nice
American chestnut is discovered by hikers in the Smokey Mountains.
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: "On a mission to save the chestnut tree" Community College Times, Jan. 18, 2008
Hill
Craddock presents a copy of Mighty Giants to Bill Owens. To see photos of the field trip to Frozen Head Mountain (Sept. 29, 2007) click here. Chestnut photos in KY, TN, and VA (September, 2007) The recent meeting of the Tennessee Chapter at Greenback, TN was great fun and educational. To see the summary of the meeting events and the Power Point presentations, go to: TN-TACF meeting at Greenback, TN, Aug. 11, 2007
Recent TN Chapter
Newsletter--TN Chapter pollinators have been busier than bees this
summer. Images of the Allegheny chinquapin, a cousin of the American chestnut Recent chestnut pollination photos Don Sudbrink plants chestnut trees at the Austin Peay State University Farm, May 16, 2007. Land Between the Lakes chestnuts, May 2007 Clark Cropper starts his chestnut orchard, May 10, 2007. Chestnut exhibit at the Science Expo held at Volunteer State Community College, April 2007 Order TN-TACF T-Shirts with the new logo.
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 DEDICATED TO THE RESTORATION OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT | ||||
