Curt Laffin shows the flowers of an American chestnut tree in Mont Vernon on July 8. Credit: Courtesy of Arthur F Rounds Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news ...

Dauphin County (WHTM) Here at the Boyd Big Tree Preserve in Dauphin County, a very special harvest is underway. Biologists Stephen Hoy of the American Chestnut Foundation and Noah Vincent of Penn ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In bloom the pink-draped Cape Chestnut is a magnificent sight.

Loudoun County, Va (WUSA9) — The American chestnut was wiped out a century ago. It had dominated America's eastern forests, providing wood, shade and food for animals and humans. People in Appalachia ...

MONSON - One of the unexpected results of the devastating tornado that tore through Monson seven years ago on June 1, 2011 was the revival of the American chestnut tree atop Mt. Ella in Flynt Park. As ...

On a late June morning I met up with about 25 people at the parking area of the Wyndham Land Trust’s Bull Hill Project in Thompson and Woodstock. We weren’t there just to hike to the top of Bull Hill ...

American chestnut trees once towered over the landscape, dominating forests in parts of the eastern United States. But in the late 1800s, a fungal blight virtually wiped them out across the country.

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In a research orchard in Syracuse, pollinator ecologist Molly Jacobson swept her net through the air just 10 feet from where ...

Ron Bockenhauer sounds remarkably cheerful for a man living among orphans of one of the country’s most infamous ecological tragedies. He resides in the largest remaining stand of American chestnut ...

The American chestnut tree was once called "the redwood of the East" because of how huge it could grow. It was an amazing food source: each fall, the tree would drop an unbelievable bounty of tasty ...