Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut. Bruce Beehler is a ...

If you read Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” the sad fate of the American chestnut tree will be familiar to you. If ...

Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant trees back into forest ecosystems of the eastern United States. The American Chestnut Project has evolved from basic research into a ...

The startup buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees ... he acquired Forest Carbon Works, a startup founded by Kyle Holland that helped families manage their forests to sell ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut trees. And depending on where you live, it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American ...

The American chestnut gave numerous forest animals food and shelter as well. "It's the tree version of quinoa, to create a very bad analogy. Chestnut trees are the gardener's version of the ...

Startup Chestnut Carbon has raised $160 million to plant, restore and manage trees on degraded farmland, generating carbon credits for customers that include Microsoft Corp.  The company's goal: ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

Our goal is to have these trees available to the public by the fall of 2023. We have also embarked on a multi-university collaborative effort to identify the tolerance genes in Chinese chestnut (see ...

The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to reforest 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.

The agreement is estimated to restore roughly 60,000 acres of land by planting over 35 million native, biodiverse hardwood and softwood trees ... Chestnut generates high-quality U.S.-based forest ...