The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project ... We hope to return these trees can be returned to their historic native range, to benefit people and local ecosystems once ...

When the chestnut blight, native to Asia, arrived in New York City around 1904, it spread at a rate of 50 miles a year.

FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Did you know that an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees, a species native to Virginia ...

The benefits of trees are boundless. Whether it is the calming aesthetics of a tree-lined path or street, the cooling shade ...

is a medium to tall tree native to North America. A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species of oak and the American chestnut tree.

Though Murrill’s doomsday predictions for the American chestnut proved true, the tree was never forgotten ... producing seedlings that are almost identical to the native species but are ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

At Raccoon Oak Farm, Ida Aronson is experimenting with indigenous methods of growing native southeastern fruit and nut trees ...

The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at SUNY ESF ... and restoration of our critical tree ecosystem that includes the chestnut and other trees native to North America that are ...

And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s ...

According to Fine Gardening, this beloved tree was an important part of America's history, providing abundant harvests for ...