The once-prevalent American chestnut tree was wiped out of West Virginia by blight nearly 100 years ago, but you may be able to help with its restoration efforts.

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

On his land in western Maine, naturalist Bernd Heinrich is surrounded by American chestnut trees and seedlings. More than 1,300 of them grow on his land. Only four of these trees were planted by him, ...

Many Americans alive today know that there is an American chestnut tree, but few know that it was once a keystone tree species on the East Coast of the United States from Georgia to Maine. According ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...

Chestnuts were reputedly served at the first Thanksgiving and thanks to dedicated breeding programs may be available locally ...

The American chestnut was once the dominant hardwood species in Appalachian mountain forests, comprising as much as 40 percent of the overstory trees in the climax forests of the Eastern United States ...

The natural world is full of microbes, fungi, and plants that have given us valuable medicines, like tetracyclines, penicillin, and morphine. Researchers have now identified a molecule they called ...

SYRACUSE, NY – Nov. 8, 2023 - The American Chestnut Restoration Project at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) received a $636,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of ...

Walk through a local forest, and you’ll see a diverse assemblage of trees– tuliptrees reaching straight up into the sky, sassafras wiggling their trunks through the canopy, black cherries sporting ...

The American chestnut — once among the largest, tallest, fastest-growing trees in the eastern U.S. woodlands — could see a revival on Long Island. A group of Island environmentalists hopes to restore ...