The project preserves some of the landmark building’s original architecture, including columns from the old nurses’ residence ...

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

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

Before the blight, chestnut trees were a kind of currency, particularly in Appalachia, where livestock grew fat grazing on the nuts. Families enjoyed them as a treat, and in lean years, as a ...

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

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

Elmore Leonard once said “I don’t have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I ...

Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American ...

By 1950, much of the nation’s chestnut tree stand had fallen victim to the blight. Frank Snyder, retired state forester in Schuylkill and Carbon counties, said the chestnut tree played a key ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – June 16, 2025 — You can play a vital role in restoring the American chestnut tree to northeastern forests by participating in the open comment period for the blight-tolerant ‘Darling’ ...

In as little as 50 years, some estimate that 4 billion individual American chestnut trees died from the blight, which kills the trees before they are mature enough to reproduce.

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.