Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid ...

The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project ... and an emerging threat called Beech Leaf Disease (which is rapidly spreading on American beech trees throughout the eastern US ...

Called the 1,000 Chestnut Challenge ( nyrp.org/chestnut ), the project’s goal is to eventually establish 1,000 thriving ...

However, our research team is studying microbes found in some beech leaves that could lead to biocontrol treatments, and adapting chestnut tissue culture protocols to help conserve and propagate ...

NYC residents can receive free hybrid chestnut trees from the NY Restoration Project to help revive the species.

[via Inhabitat] Between logging and the introduction of chestnut blight, the once prevalent American ... trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight ...

At one time there were billions of American chestnuts in the Appalachian Mountains. Today, because of chestnut blight, ...

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be immortalized ... and with characteristic ...

[via Inhabitat] Between logging and the introduction of chestnut blight, the once prevalent American ... trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight ...

Aug 17, 2024 Aug 17, 2024 Updated Aug 18, 2024 The American chestnut tree was one of the most populous and mighty trees in eastern North America before a blight over the past century brought it to ...