Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...

Graboski says people planted Japanese and Chinese chestnut trees that co-evolved with ... Graboski said there are some American chestnuts that have survived the blight. “And so part of our mission in ...

The goal is to infuse the American chestnut with the blight-resistant genes of the Chinese chestnut. American chestnuts once made up about 25 percent of the forests in the eastern United States, with ...

Mark Ferguson and his husband purchased his family's 226-acre Bedford County farm in 2022. His goal is to restore the land ...

Anderson plans to begin selling value-priced product from its Chinese partner Power ... to replant the American chestnut species, which was wiped out by blight in the mid 1900s.

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

Also, most likely, any chestnuts you roasted would not be American chestnuts. Why? A chestnut blight in the early 20th century wiped out most of American chestnuts in our local forests.

Altoona should not ignore any potential resource in the fight against blight. That’s why the city should revive the Vacant Property Review Board, which has been dormant since about 2008.

but it faced near extinction due to the chestnut blight, a disease caused by the introduced fungal pathogen Cryphonectria parasitica. Restoration efforts have gained momentum in recent years ...

There are a million things we love about Morris Chestnut. He’s talented, articulate, chocolate, and as fine as ever. Although we often swoon about his gorgeousness, we all admire that he has ...