The American chestnut was once the dominant species of eastern U.S. forests and thrived for an estimated 40 million years. The trees grew fast and tall and in great abundance. It’s estimated that the ...

Q: What can you tell me about American and Chinese chestnut? A: American chestnut (genus Castanea, species dentate) is in the beech family. This tree was a plentiful species, providing 25 percent of ...

For generations, the American Chestnut dominated East Coast forests—a tree vital to both wildlife and humans and prized for its bountiful nuts and rot-resistant lumber. Around the turn of the 19th ...

The American chestnut was once the most abundant and economically important tree species in the eastern forests of North America. But then a fungal pathogen was brought over from Asia and has caused ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

The American chestnut was all but destroyed by fungal blight and logged as settlements spread west when the United States was settled by Europeans. But lately, it’s making a comeback. Endangered for ...

Leading the way down a grassy lane on an October morning, Tim Eck paused regularly to look skyward and examine the treetops bordering a narrow path cutting through a southern Lancaster County chestnut ...

Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, they're called to mind ...

I’ll admit it. I had no idea why the American chestnut tree would be such an important thing that there would be an entire evening devoted to educating the public on just that word: why. However, ...

IN THE BAG: Volunteers with The American Chestnut Foundation use transgenic pollen to pollinate trees in a New York research orchard. Photo courtesy of TACF No one ever said it would be simple. When ...