To a passerby, it probably looked like the volunteers wandering a soggy Murrysville meadow one morning this week were just pushing muddy sticks into the ground. In actuality, they were planting three ...

But have you ever seen a healthy American chestnut tree in a forest ... We should harness the power of science to rescue an important native tree. I’ve been writing about this possibility ...

are the most beneficial trees to grace any yard ... It's worth noting that although the U.S. has its native American chestnut species, it isn't recommended in residential landscapes, given ...

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project ... We hope to return these trees can be returned to their historic native range, to benefit people and local ecosystems once ...

Now, scientists are using a combination of techniques to develop blight-resistant trees from this remaining population. The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can ...

who dug deep providing insight to those in attendance about the foundation’s ongoing efforts to restore the American chestnut tree to its native habitat in the forests of the Northeast.

The "Darling" blight-tolerant American chestnut trees contain a gene from wheat to neutralize the ... Ammophila breviligulata) is an ideal model system for the conservation and restoration of native ...

They spent the morning removing invasive species and replacing them with native species of plants and trees, including the nearly extinct American Chestnut tree, which would have grown in the area ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American ... never seen a chestnut tree before,” said Melanie Barnett, a California native and senior ...