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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

[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 ...

The possibility that the transgenic American chestnut trees may have higher levels of blight resistance than the Chinese chestnut control is supported by another experiment using trees with smaller ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut trees. And depending on where you live, it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American ...

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 ...

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