[MassChestnutOrchards] Mark Your Calendar! New England Regional TACF Meeting - March 20

[Kendra Gurney]

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
 <mailto:Kendra at acf.org> Kendra at acf.org or kgurney at uvm.edu

 

 

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