New Hampshire Public Radio

UNH’s chestnut trees may not repopulate forests. But they’re still helping the effort.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...
NPR

Researchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100 years

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been killing the iconic American tree for more than a century. And now a checkup of ...
The Roanoke Times

Researchers work to save American chestnut trees from blight

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...
The Hill

That new chestnut? USDA plans to allow the release of GE trees into wild forests

Although many Americans still associate the winter holidays with chestnuts, the tree that once produced them — the American chestnut — no longer does so, except in a few rare cases. During the first ...