American chestnut trees, deemed functionally extinct decades ago, may already be mounting a quiet comeback in the northern ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...

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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 ...

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 ...

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...

The American chestnut was once the most abundant and economically important tree species in the eastern forests of North America. But then a fungal pathogen was brought over from Asia and has caused ...

ASHEVILLE, NC - April 29, 2013 at 10 am, volunteers from the Carolinas Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will gather to plant 100 potentially blight and root-rot resistant American ...

Researchers rediscovered the greater chestnut weevil, a beetle species thought to be extinct. The beetle was found with the help of a citizen science app called iNaturalist. Researchers are now ...

FISKDALE — Bringing a species back from extinction is normally considered impossible outside of the "Jurassic Park" movie series. Although the students working at the Tantasqua American Chestnut ...

Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...