an American-Chinese chestnut hybrid and two non-transgenic "control" tree species, sugar maple and American beech. The result: No observed differences in growth or survival of wood frog larvae reared ...

The rare mature American chestnut tree stands in the “middle of nowhere” deep in the Coverdale Farm Preserve. (Cris Barrish/WHYY) Sebastiani, who led the group, took time to identify the variety of ...

and compete with species like yellow poplar and red maple." The goal of the American Chestnut Foundation was to breed a blight-resistant tree that is genetically 94 percent American chestnut.

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Opposite leaves are just what they sound like: the leaves, whether ...

HIGH-END MEGO, THAT IS OUR MAPLE -- HABANERO MANGO ... COOPERATORS FOUNDATION COLLECTS THE NUTS FROM AN AMERICAN CHESTNUT TREE. >> THERE ARE NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE ALIVE TODAY WHO REMEMBERED CHESTNUT ...

The same spot is now home to mostly box elder and sugar maple trees, said Sara Elliott ... vanished from North America include the American chestnut, which was attacked by an imported fungal ...

It has one nut in a burr that opens into two halves which gives the tree a distinctive chestnut look. The Allegheny chinkapin, also called common chinkapin, may well be the most ignored and ...

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — The Tennessee Environmental Council planted hybrid American Chestnut trees at Panther Creek State Park Tuesday. It's part of an effort to bring back the once thriving tree in ...

Over more than three decades, Powell led a team that pioneered genetic engineering techniques to bring the iconic American chestnut tree back from the brink of extinction. “I’m really hoping ...