Want to get started growing American Chestnut trees? Learn how to start harvesting chestnuts at home and choose the best species for you. The majestic American chestnut tree was once common ...

The USDA has begun a 45-day open comment period for its review of the Darling chestnut, making the final step in the process ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. By the end of this summer, the Maine Chapter of The American Chestnut ...

Once a towering presence in northeastern forests, the American Chestnut is making a quiet comeback in Brooklyn.

After American chestnuts began to die, American elms replaced them as the dominant street trees around the country. But late in the 20th century, they too were killed off, in their case by Dutch ...

Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

The pathogen that killed off the American chestnut arrived before 1900, carried on Japanese chestnut saplings imported for ...

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We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century.

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber, they're culturally loved by people all over North America and they used to be an important species for the ecological health of forests ...

American chestnut trees were once abundant, flourishing in forests from Maine to Louisiana. Rosem Morton for The Wall Street Journal. By Kristina Peterson. Updated Dec. 29, 2022 7:07 am ET.

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Center is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of a blight-resistant American chestnut tree (Castanea ...