Important Documents for the CT Chapter. All documents on this page are in the Adobe Acrobat format. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents. We make it a practice to indicate the document size in square brackets [(example)kb] to the right of the document link to provide you choice when downloading, if you have a limited bandwidth connection.

Legal Documents Related to our Organization and Governance

• CT Chapter Bylaws [22kb]
• CT Chapter Constitution and Amendments [1530kb]
• Current Organization Chart (2008) for the CT-TACF Chapter [8kb]
• Strategic Plan adopted at the 5/9/2006 meeting of the Board of Directors. Please provide feedback [50kb]

Legal Documents Related to our Incorporation and Tax Status

• CT State Certificate of Incorporation [513kb]
• Receipt of State Certificate of Incorporation and first filing (CT) [233kb]
• IRS Statement of Status for 501(c)(3), 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) of the Internal Revenue Code [477kb]
• We also have the original IRS First Letter of Determination [2.5MB] and Second Letter of Determination [571kb] and Final Letter of Determination. [515kb]
• Bulk Rate Postage Permit Approval (September 19, 2005) [637kb]
• CT Cert-119 for Purchases of Tangible Property by Qualifying Exempt Organizations (January 6, 2006) [126kb]

CT-TACF Financial Statements

• 2007 Financial Statement (January 31, 2008) [24kb]
• 2006 Financial Statement (February 10, 2007) [24kb]
• 2005 Financial Statement (December 11, 2005) [20kb]
  • Associated Independent Audit Letter - 2005 Financial Statement (J.Baker - Treas. Litchfield Audubon - January 15, 2006) [121kb]

Legal Documents related to CT-TACF Meetings

• Minutes of the March 2008 Board of Directors Meeting Draft [27kb]
• Minutes of the December 2007 Board of Directors Meeting Approved March 29, 2008 [34kb]
• Minutes of the February 2007 Board of Directors Meeting Approved December 15, 2007 [38kb]
• Minutes of the September (Fall) 2006 Board of Directors Meeting Approved February 10, 2007 [64kb]
• Minutes of the May 2006 Board of Directors Meeting Approved September 23rd, 2006 [21kb]
• Minutes of the November 2005 Board of Directors Meeting Approved May 9, 2006 [21kb]
• Minutes of the September 2005 Board of Directors Meeting Approved November 12, 2005 [21kb]
• Minutes of the 2005 Nominating Committee Meeting [21kb]

Legal Documents Related to the TACF's Intellectual Property

• TACF Germplasm Agreement [9kb]
• TACF Chapter License Agreement [902kb]
• TACF Chapter Science Agreement [454kb]
• TACF Chapter Membership and Fundraising Agreement [491kb]
• TACF Chapter Policy Resolution [605kb]

CT-TACF Membership Application

• Printable Membership Application [148kb]

CT-TACF Newsletters

• CT-TACF Autumn 2006 Newsletter [850kb]
  
• CT-TACF Spring 2006 Newsletter [347kb]
  
• CT-TACF Autumn 2005 Newsletter [860kb]
  

Chestnut Pollination

• Pollination Forms for reporting on mother tree pollinations and harvest. [Excel format] [*Adobe PDF format].
• Tree Locator Forms for reporting on mother tree locations, size, condition and logistics considerations for pollinating. [MS-Word format] and [*Adobe PDF format]
  *With the Adobe PDF version, just print out, fill in and mail to Leila at the CT offices at Yale.

Chestnut Cultivation

• Chestnut Growing Guide A short paper on how to grow chestnuts in our area, by the Pennsylvania Chapter. [20kb]
• CT-TACF Mother Trees A listing of the Trees in CT. [170kb]
• The Pennsylvania State Chapter has an excellent explanation of the backcross breeding and intercross program at this page. It describes in very understandable terms how the program works, and the definitions of abbreviations used.
• A question I've heard raised is, "what are the reforestation plans once resistant trees are developed?" Distribution Strategy, Consensus Points is the TACF official plan for the reforestation as of 2003. In addition, here in CT we are active in both the Private Forest Stewardship Committee and the Public Forest Stewardship Committee of the CT Forest Forum which gives us a huge network of public and private foresters with who to communicate about distribution