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 ...

On his land in western Maine, naturalist Bernd Heinrich is surrounded by American chestnut trees and seedlings. More than 1,300 of them grow on his land. Only four of these trees were planted by him, ...

The chestnut tree, an emblematic species with both cultural and economic significance across Europe and Asia, faces considerable challenges due to a range of fungal diseases. Research in recent ...

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

From the northernmost reach of the White Mountains and Mahoosuc Highlands of Maine, through the crystalline escarpments of the Catskills and Blue Ridge — down into the Shenandoah, Cumberland and ...

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, 78, hiked, ...

Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

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 ...

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D.

GRANVILLE – While The American Chestnut Foundation recently announced an effort to produce a transgenic blight-resistant American chestnut was a failure, two orchards in Granville continue on the ...