From tsuga35 at aol.com Mon Feb 1 16:51:21 2010 From: tsuga35 at aol.com (tsuga35 at aol.com) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:51:21 -0500 Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed In-Reply-To: <010601caa2c9$92781570$b7684050$@net> References: <000301caa13d$ba8955c0$2f9c0140$@NET><895754.43221.qm@web111407.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <3ea3fdf71001301747q4c5b3d5dy8e3cd4292af8e2b6@mail.gmail.com><8CC70DDBC44F255-4B94-1DA61@webmail-d013.sysops.aol.com> <010601caa2c9$92781570$b7684050$@net> Message-ID: <8CC719FD365FDD6-523C-34DA@webmail-m005.sysops.aol.com> makes no difference if it comes from us we can be used! and maybe not the way we want to be perceived Guy. -----Original Message----- From: Gary Jacob To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org Sent: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 6:03 pm Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed Guy, I do not think he is asking for resistant nuts, just original pure Americans. Gary From: masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org [mailto:masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org] On Behalf Of tsuga35 at aol.com Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:42 PM To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed I do not see any good coming from providing nuts to this person, only bad press and bad feeling from members who are willing to wait and support the organization .Guy -----Original Message----- From: Bill Adamsen To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org Cc: Daphne Van Schaick ; KATHY DESJARDIN Sent: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 8:47 pm Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed Jamie and Kathy: We don't show a Cliff Olson that is or ever has been a member of TACF from the state of CT. It would be interesting to get a better understanding of what he is doing, and intends to do with the opa materials. I will contact him off-line. -- Bill Adamsen CT Chapter President 917.796.4284 (m) On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Jamie Donalds wrote: Kathy, This seems like someone who we should help if we can. I remember someone at the winter chapter meeting saying that they had, or knew somone who had pure Amercans. Does any one who attended remember this? -Jamie From: KATHY DESJARDIN To: Charlotte Zampini ; Rufin Van Bossuyt ; Jamie Donalds Sent: Fri, January 29, 2010 6:49:35 PM Subject: FW: Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed The following is a rather unusual request address to our chapter. Wondered if you are familiar with this person. Kathy From: mlbcliff at aol.com [mailto:mlbcliff at aol.com] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:48 PM To: machapter at acf.org Subject: Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed Hello Ms. Desjardin, My name is Clifford Olson. I am a American Chestnut enthusiast and breeder from Connecticut and am interested in obtaining pure American Chestnut seeds from your state. I have an orchard that currently has many American trees from Virginia in it and as spring is just around the corner, I am hoping to greatly expand it soon with trees from many other states as well. My goal is to obtain seeds/seedlings from as many mother trees as possible from every state so that I can preserve the gene pool for the time being and eventually repopulate the surrounding area. Collecting pure American Chestnut trees is a true passion of mine and I have been doubling my recent efforts to obtain seeds from as many surviving American Chestnut trees as I can. Unfortunately getting to each state in the original range and searching about for the rare surviving mother trees is a daunting task, although a welcome one. I do not know if you have any pure American Chestnut seeds available that you are willing to part with or not, but I would be DELIGHTED to have some if they are available. I can use as many as you are willing to give. They would be well watered, protected, and taken care of. I can send you some money. If none are available, I will be disappointed but understand completely! Pure American Chestnuts from local trees are a rare and beautiful thing. Thank you for your time! I look forward to hearing from you! 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URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutorchards/attachments/20100201/cd866176/attachment.html From Yvonne_Federowicz at brown.edu Mon Feb 1 16:53:50 2010 From: Yvonne_Federowicz at brown.edu (Yvonne Federowicz) Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:53:50 -0500 Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed In-Reply-To: <8CC719FD365FDD6-523C-34DA@webmail-m005.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Perhaps individuals can provide nuts, rather than the chapter ? any MA/RI pure Americans aren?t TACF work anyhow. On 2/1/10 4:51 PM, "Guy Shepard" wrote: > > makes no difference if it comes from us we can be used! and maybe not the way > we want to be perceived > Guy. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Jacob > To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org > Sent: Sun, Jan 31, 2010 6:03 pm > Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed > > Guy, > > I do not think he is asking for resistant nuts, just original pure Americans. > > Gary > > > From: masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org > [mailto:masschestnutorchards-bounces at masschestnut.org > ] On Behalf Of > tsuga35 at aol.com > Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 5:42 PM > To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org > Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed > > > I do not see any good coming from providing nuts to this person, > only bad press and bad feeling from members who are willing to wait and > support the organization > .Guy > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Adamsen > To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org > Cc: Daphne Van Schaick ; KATHY DESJARDIN > > Sent: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 8:47 pm > Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed > Jamie and Kathy: > > We don't show a Cliff Olson that is or ever has been a member of TACF from the > state of CT. > It would be interesting to get a better understanding of what he is doing, and > intends to do with the opa materials. > I will contact him off-line. > > -- > Bill Adamsen > CT Chapter President > 917.796.4284 (m) > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Jamie Donalds wrote: > Kathy, This seems like someone who we should help if we can. > I remember someone at the winter chapter meeting saying that they > had, or knew somone who had pure Amercans. > Does any one who attended remember this? > -Jamie > > > From: KATHY DESJARDIN > To: Charlotte Zampini ; Rufin Van Bossuyt ; > Jamie Donalds > Sent: Fri, January 29, 2010 6:49:35 PM > Subject: FW: Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed > The following is a rather unusual request address to our chapter. Wondered if > you are familiar with this person. > > Kathy > > From: mlbcliff at aol.com [mailto:mlbcliff at aol.com] > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:48 PM > To: machapter at acf.org > Subject: Request For Pure American Chestnut Seed > > Hello Ms. Desjardin, > > My name is Clifford Olson. I am a American Chestnut enthusiast and breeder > from Connecticut and am interested in obtaining pure American Chestnut seeds > from your state. I have an orchard that currently has many American trees from > Virginia in it and as spring is just around the corner, I am hoping to greatly > expand it soon with trees from many other states as well. My goal is to obtain > seeds/seedlings from as many mother trees as possible from every state so that > I can preserve the gene pool for the time being and eventually repopulate the > surrounding area. Collecting pure American Chestnut trees is a true passion of > mine and I have been doubling my recent efforts to obtain seeds from as many > surviving American Chestnut trees as I can. Unfortunately getting to each > state in the original range and searching about for the rare surviving mother > trees is a daunting task, although a welcome one. I do not know if you have > any pure American Chestnut seeds available that you are willing to part with > or not, but I would be DELIGHTED to have some if they are available. I can use > as many as you are willing to give. They would be well watered, protected, and > taken care of. I can send you some money. If none are available, I will be > disappointed but understand completely! Pure American Chestnuts from local > trees are a rare and beautiful thing. Thank you for your time! I look forward > to hearing from you! > > Cliff Olson > > > _______________________________________________ > MassChestnutOrchards mailing list > MassChestnutOrchards at masschestnut.org > http://mrsgale.fates.org/mailman/listinfo/masschestnutorchards > > _______________________________________________ > MassChestnutOrchards mailing list > MassChestnutOrchards at masschestnut.org > http://mrsgale.fates.org/mailman/listinfo/masschestnutorchards > _______________________________________________ > MassChestnutOrchards mailing list > MassChestnutOrchards at masschestnut.org > http://mrsgale.fates.org/mailman/listinfo/masschestnutorchards > > > _______________________________________________ > MassChestnutOrchards mailing list > MassChestnutOrchards at masschestnut.org > http://mrsgale.fates.org/mailman/listinfo/masschestnutorchards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutorchards/attachments/20100201/ca125fb1/attachment.html From kendra at acf.org Wed Feb 17 11:18:51 2010 From: kendra at acf.org (Kendra Gurney) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:18:51 -0500 Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] Mark Your Calendar! New England Regional TACF Meeting - March 20 Message-ID: <023801caafec$ef0ade50$cd209af0$@org> I hope you can join us for a New England Regional TACF meeting on Saturday, March 20th. I heard from many of you that you would welcome improved communication between your neighboring chapters and this meeting should be a great opportunity to share ideas and experiences. I've put together a draft agenda (below) based on input from some of you, but welcome any comments or requests for additional topics. Please RSVP to me (Kendra at acf.org) if you plan to attend, as I will be putting some materials together for attendees to look over before the meeting. And please pass this invite along to others I may have missed. This meeting is open to all, however I don't anticipate spending too much time on introductory material. It would be great to have a few board members and orchard managers from each chapter in attendance. I do hope the meeting will be a forum for sharing experience, which could be very useful to newcomers, and I encourage anyone interested to join us. I hope to see you there! New England Regional Meeting Urban Forestry Center 45 Elwyn Road Portsmouth, NH 03801 Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:30 - 4:00 Please bring a bag lunch. Snacks to share are always welcome! Draft Agenda Topics: New England Chestnut Grower's Guide - Use existing resources to pull together a grower's guide that covers the types of plantings and management applicable to the NE chapters (2 hours, maybe more) Restoration Branches - Bryan Burhans will be joining us to describe these in more detail and answer your questions (1 hour) Chapter Strategic Planning - strategies for guiding your local chapter (30-45 mins) Trees Database - update on the TACF on-line database project and some issues for the chapters to start thinking about (30-45 mins) Seed Orchards - a next step for breeding in New England (30-45 mins) This is only a draft agenda. Please send me any additional items you'd like to discuss. This meeting is a chance to learn how others have approached many of the same issues facing your chapter so if you'd like to hear from the other chapters on a particular issue, this is your chance. I'll do my best to incorporate any suggestions into a final agenda. Best - Kendra Kendra Gurney The American Chestnut FoundationR New England Regional Science Coordinator USFS Northern Research Station 705 Spear Street South Burlington, VT 05403 Tel: 802.951.6771 x1350 Fax: 802.951.6368 Cell: 802.999.8706 Kendra at acf.org or kgurney at uvm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutorchards/attachments/20100217/a40dd5a7/attachment.html From stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com Wed Feb 17 14:54:25 2010 From: stepbystepfarm at mtdata.com (Mike or Penny Novack) Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:54:25 -0500 Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] Mark Your Calendar! New England Regional TACF Meeting - March 20 In-Reply-To: <023801caafec$ef0ade50$cd209af0$@org> References: <023801caafec$ef0ade50$cd209af0$@org> Message-ID: <4B7C4971.2020807@mtdata.com> I will try to attend. This time of year make no definite plans, weather always being a factor. Michael Kendra Gurney wrote: > I hope you can join us for a *New England Regional* *TACF *meeting on > *Saturday, March 20^th *. I heard from many of you that you would > welcome improved communication between your neighboring chapters and > this meeting should be a great opportunity to share ideas and > experiences. I?ve put together a draft agenda (below) based on input > from some of you, but welcome any comments or requests for additional > topics. > > *Please RSVP* to me (Kendra at acf.org ) if you > plan to attend, as I will be putting some materials together for > attendees to look over before the meeting. And please pass this invite > along to others I may have missed. This meeting is open to all, > however I don?t anticipate spending too much time on introductory > material. It would be great to have a few board members and orchard > managers from each chapter in attendance. I do hope the meeting will > be a forum for sharing experience, which could be very useful to > newcomers, and I encourage anyone interested to join us. I hope to see > you there! > > * * > > *New England Regional Meeting * > > Urban Forestry Center > > 45 Elwyn Road > > Portsmouth, NH 03801 > > *Saturday, March 20, 2010 * > > *9:30 ? 4:00 * > > Please bring a *bag lunch*. Snacks to share are always welcome! > > *Draft* Agenda Topics: > > New England Chestnut Grower?s Guide ? Use existing resources to pull > together a grower?s guide that covers the types of plantings and > management applicable to the NE chapters (2 hours, maybe more) > > Restoration Branches ? Bryan Burhans will be joining us to describe > these in more detail and answer your questions (1 hour) > > Chapter Strategic Planning ? strategies for guiding your local chapter > (30-45 mins) > > Trees Database ? update on the TACF on-line database project and some > issues for the chapters to start thinking about (30-45 mins) > > Seed Orchards ? a next step for breeding in New England (30-45 mins) > > This is only a draft agenda. Please send me any additional items you?d > like to discuss. This meeting is a chance to learn how others have > approached many of the same issues facing your chapter so if you?d > like to hear from the other chapters on a particular issue, this is > your chance. I?ll do my best to incorporate any suggestions into a > final agenda. > > Best ? > > Kendra > > Kendra Gurney > The American Chestnut Foundation^? > > New England Regional Science Coordinator > USFS Northern Research Station > 705 Spear Street > South Burlington, VT 05403 > Tel: 802.951.6771 x1350 Fax: 802.951.6368 > > Cell: 802.999.8706 > Kendra at acf.org or kgurney at uvm.edu > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >MassChestnutOrchards mailing list >MassChestnutOrchards at masschestnut.org >http://mrsgale.fates.org/mailman/listinfo/masschestnutorchards > > -- There is no possibility of social justice on a dead planet except the equality of the grave. From bill.adamsen at gmail.com Fri Feb 26 11:15:26 2010 From: bill.adamsen at gmail.com (Bill Adamsen) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:15:26 -0500 Subject: [MassChestnutOrchards] CT Chapter Annual Meeting in Hartford Message-ID: <3ea3fdf71002260815j241c5496k2ffef8246f354a9d@mail.gmail.com> Please spread the word that the CT Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will hold our annual meeting in partnership with Trinity College in Hartford on Saturday March 6th. We would love to see you there! The meeting is free and open to all, however an RSVP is requested for planning purposes. The meeting includes presentations by USFS Molecular Geneticist Dr. Tom Kubisiak, and entomologist Dr. Lynne Rieske-Kinney of the Univ. of Kentucky. In addition, TACF President Bryan Burhans will attend to speak about TACF's ambitious new restoration plans. In all, the meeting will provide a great snap-shot of where we are, in terms of American chestnut restoration, and where we are going. Plus, this will be a great venue to meet local TACF members who are actively participating in this effort and learn how to get involved! More details are found at the Chapter's web-siteor on the printable brochure . The program includes the lectures, sessions on chestnut identification, 2 hours of CT Forestry\Arborist CEUs for those that qualify, lunch, and a tour of the Watkinson Library special rare-book collection at Trinity ... with a special exhibit produced especially for this event. RSVP Kendra Gurney at 802.951.6771 x1350 or via e-mail at kendra at acf.org. Thanks! -- Bill Adamsen Director, The American Chestnut Foundation? President, CT Chapter TACF Kendra Gurney TACF New England Regional Science Coordinator 802.951.6771 x1350 (o) 802.999.8706 (m) Kendra at acf.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mrsgale.fates.org/pipermail/masschestnutorchards/attachments/20100226/00fe5717/attachment.html