More: 5 poisonous plants to avoid in Delaware this summer, from poison ivy to spotted water hemlock The giant chestnut trees that used to dominate forests are all but gone; however, the fungus ...

The chestnut blight is caused by an insidious ... These splotchy indentations, reminiscent of a bruise, can choke off the tree’s flow of water and nutrients. The fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica ...

My water heater has to be set at 145 degrees ... Beehler’s piece on the importance of restoring American chestnut trees to our forests was thoughtfully written. However, I would like to point ...

The long empty and frequently flooding Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) grassy field adjacent to the Ethnic ...

A five-year plan for addressing the continued growth of water chestnuts at Lake Warner in North Hadley will include use of ...

“Chestnuts end up being big trees that store a lot of CO 2 and have ... Sick and dying trees stop sequestering carbon and storing water, are prone to wildfire, and can take entire ecosystems ...

“A canker forms from that fungus and eventually envelops the entirety of the tree and, and it can no longer transmit water and nutrients.” By creating a hybrid that is mostly American chestnut ...