And like cypress, the American chestnut is valued for its beauty. These days few chestnut trees manage to reach maturity due to a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep got one expert on the phone who says ...

Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do the Erie County municipalities of Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There’s a reason you find so many stretches of road ...

(WJAR) — The American Chestnut Tree was almost completely wiped out by the middle the last century. But now, if some researchers get approval from the Feds, genetic engineering may bring the American ...

Students in the Olympic High School B-3 Summer Program worked to prevent the extinction of the American chestnut tree. The American Chestnut Foundation says the chestnut blight, an Asian fungus that ...

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

Maybe you’ve never roasted chestnuts on an open fire. And if you have, what you bought at the store wasn’t an American chestnut. When Mel Torme wrote “The Christmas Song” back in 1945, the American ...

This leaf disease has been firmly established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and has spread north into New ...

In this and my next two essays, I’d like to explore: (A.) How, in the first half of the 20th century, Americans unintentionally made an absolute hash of the deciduous forests of Eastern North America; ...

The woodland in my backyard on the outskirts of Decatur now has a new distinction — the home of two American chestnut trees, planted there last week by my forestry friend, Dale Higdon. The trees — or ...

Question: I would love to grow American chestnut trees on my property to harvest the nuts for the holidays. Is this possible? Answer: The quick answer to this question is no – though work on ...