Chestnut trees reveal the lasting impact of the Roman Empire on Europe’s landscape, showing how Romans shaped forestry across ...

Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

According to researchers in Switzerland, the Romans had something of a penchant for sweet chestnut trees, spreading them across Europe. But it wasn't so much the delicate, earthy chestnuts they ...

Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a tree native to the Balkan Peninsula ... the aroma of roasting sweet chestnuts will begin to fill the air. Roasted sweet chestnuts are such a holiday ...

As the Roman empire spread across Europe and the Mediterranean their civilization left a visible legacy far beyond that of their infrastructure projects.

Deep in the forests of southern Switzerland, sweet chestnut trees stand as living evidence of the Roman Empire’s long-reaching influence, not just in roads and language, but in the very landscape ...

Parking near the base, I came upon an experimental planting of American chestnut trees. Then, hiking up the mountain, I found an American chestnut sapling in the forest proper. This was a sprout ...

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