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

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

encouraging public participation through the identification of rare remnant surviving chestnut trees, collecting and exchanging viable nuts, and establishing large restoration plantations throughout ...

The chestnut trees of Europe tell a hidden story charting the fortunes of ancient Rome and the legacy it left in the ...

It protects the tree by breaking down a toxin created ... No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and ...

The American chestnut almost was wiped out in the 20th century. Can scientists and the Park Service bring back this iconic tree? At the end of ... chestnuts at the rate of 219,000 trees per day, every ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves ... in more nuanced conditions like when a tree is more susceptible to infection.

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