How did three blight-tolerant American chestnuts from Maine, grown on the family land of Seth Sprague ’75, end up in President's Park in Washington, DC? Tom Klak, an environmental scientist and ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...

Chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) represent a group of economically and ecologically significant forest species distributed across Europe, Asia and North America. Genetic diversity within and among ...

Scientists at a NY university say they can bring back the near extinct American chestnut tree, wiped out a century ago, ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was... Blight destroyed the American chestnut tree. Can scientists ...

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the companies will pursue the development of scalable seedling technologies to support the first-ever restoration of a native tree species from functional ...

Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.

FARMINGTON, N.H. (AP) -- A healthy American chestnut tree discovered on a New Hampshire farm may serve as the "mother tree" to bring back a species nearly wiped out by Asian blight. The tree was found ...

Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...