All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," ...

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," Retired forester John Scrivani explains. They’re beautiful. "And ...

American chestnut trees, vulnerable to the fungal disease, were devastated by the blight, leaving behind forests full of toppled trees or stalks with bare, dead branches. Now, ... In the meantime, ...

The American chestnut tree blanketed the eastern United States more profusely than other species before it was decimated by a bark fungus in the last century, according to the Norwalk Tree ...

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

Today, although the American chestnut is not technically extinct, few trees grow old enough to flower and reproduce. Any "chestnuts roasting on open fires" today probably did not come from our ...

Joining us for our hike and search for flowering chestnut trees was Andy Rzeznikiewicz, land steward for the Bull Hill Project, ... Green Valley. I hope you’ll join me and others as we care for it, ...

It is now more than a century since the American chestnut tree - once 4 billion strong and an icon of East Coast forests - fell victim to a foreign blight. By 1950, it had virtually disappeared.

Opinion ‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it back? Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut.

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be immortalized as a true forest giant of the ...

The American chestnut, Castanea dentata, once dominated portions of the eastern U.S. forests. Numbering nearly four billion, the tree was among the largest, tallest, and fastest-growing in these ...

10 year old American chestnut tree. Photo: Jim McKenna Juvenile American chestnut (Castanea dentata) tree. Photo: Dr. Shaneka Lawson, USDA Forest Service, Purdue FNR When you hear about endangered ...