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

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 ...

[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 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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...