Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

2006). In order to enhance blight-tolerance in the American chestnut tree, we are studying several gene products, regulatory regions of genes to control expression (promoters), and the possibility of ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

Parsons’ trees, however, were carrying passengers. One was a pathogenic fungus called Cryphonectria parasitica, or chestnut blight. It lay quietly in the Asian trees whose native immunity ...

A popular new club at Claggett Middle School in Medina not only has engaged students in caring for the environment, but also ...

The mindless destroyer became known as the chestnut blight, and is believed to have entered this country around 1900 on infected Chinese chestnut trees delivered to a Long Island, N.Y., nursery.

For instance, more deer live there now, and the forest has gone for a long time without a significant fire. Other pests beyond the chestnut blight have entered the forest, too. The hemlock wooly ...

he asked. “Was it lightning?’” It wasn’t lightning. His dad told him of the once-dominant American chestnut and the blight that wiped them out. “So I thought to myself, ‘Gee ...

He knew American chestnut trees are functionally extinct − 4 billion trees in the Northeast wiped out by blight by the 1950s. Those that remain sprout not from chestnuts but from underground ...

“My only guarantee is that all of these trees we are planting across the state are eventually going to succumb to the chestnut blight,” Eva Butler, outreach coordinator for Maine ...