“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to hear there’s a ...

Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Hopefully we have said goodbye to the heat and humidity of summer as we now focus on college football, cookouts and canning and preserving the harvest. An ...

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 ...

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...

Researchers use genomes to help restore the American chestnut population and adjust species breeding to the changing climate. Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their ...

In 2014, I wrote an article on the demise of the American chestnut tree due to the invasive chestnut blight. I’ve been reading the up-to-the-moment research, and I thought I would give a hopeful ...

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...

An experimental American chestnut tree created by researchers at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry is one step closer to public release. The U.S. Department ...