Maine Chapter of the
American Chestnut Foundation
Established in 1998
Announcements
Sadly, we note the passing of Bob Lindgren on January 5, 2010. He was a long time director of the Maine Chapter and our orchard manager at Highmoor. He had a long career as a chemist in the paper industry, taught chemistry at Husson College, owned a shingle mill for awhile, and was well known to many Mainers involved in the forest industry. Bob's obituary was printed in the January 7, 2010 Bangor Daily News. If anyone would like to write a message of remembrance on-line, please go to www.bangordailynews.com . We offer our condolences to Bob’s wife, Nancy, and the rest of the Lindgren family.
We would like to send our congratulations to METACF treasurer, Joseph Conwill, and Nancy Pruett who will be getting married in August.
To Contact ME-TACF:
call: 207 945 6945
email: glenrea42@msn.com
write: ME-TACF
231 Buck Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
We would like to note the passing of our dear friend and long time ME-TACF member, Austin M. Jones, who left us on January 15, 2009. For more about Austin, please click on photo.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE ABOUT BC3F3 (SUPER) SEEDS FROM
The American Chestnut Foundation!!
TACF and ME-TACF are excited to announce that The American Chestnut Foundation’s breeding program is beginning to bear fruit--NUTS to be exact! Beginning in the Spring of 2009, TACF will make available for purchase a limited supply of chestnut (super) seeds. These sixth generation potentially blight-resistant BC3F3 seeds are the result of TACF’s on-going breeding program at the Meadowview Research Farm in Virginia and the various state chapters. Currently, Meadowview is the only producing BC3F3 seed orchard. (Click here for Maine Breeding Program Update).
Approximately 1000 seeds from the 2008 Meadowview harvest will be available to the first 200 members of TACF. Dr. Garold Thumm, a retired professor of political science from Bates College, is the only person in Maine to be in the top 200 members who will receive 5 seeds. He is donating them to the Maine chapter and we will start them indoors and plant them outside this spring. Eventually, we hope to plant them on Bates College land - in honor of Dr. Thumm who is now 93 years old.
To be eligible for TACF blight-resistant BC3F3 super seeds, you MUST be a member of TACF. Seeds will be made available to TACF members on a seniority basis. To find out more, please click here or contact ME-TACF.
Please join us in our efforts to restore the American Chestnut. Become a ME-TACF member and, most importantly, become a volunteer!
Visit our NEW blog, The ME-TACF Blog
Upcoming Events
TACF Monthly One-hour Conference Call
Monday, February 15th at 7pm EST. For more information contact Sarah S. Spooner,
Executive Assistant
The American Chestnut Foundation®
160 Zillicoa St, Suite D
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 281-0047
sarah@acf.org
www.acf.org
ME-TACF Board Meeting
The next Board meeting will be on the second Tuesday of March, 9th, at 5p.m. at the Pine Tree State Arboretum in Augusta. For more information, contact Glen Rea,
President ME-TACF
207 945 6945
ME-TACF
231 Buck Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
New England Regional Meeting
March 20th is the date set for the next meeting of the New England chapters to be held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For more information please email Eric Evans at
