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

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



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 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
 
 


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