Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant trees back into forest ecosystems of the eastern United States. The American Chestnut Project has evolved from basic research into a ...

Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.

In this multi-part series, we will identify some of the tree species and describe some of their unique characteristics. Our first species is the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) sometimes called ...

The American chestnut gave numerous forest animals food and shelter as well. "It's the tree version of quinoa, to create a very bad analogy. Chestnut trees are the gardener's version of the ...

The Tug Hill Commission and the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project invites the public to join a webinar on ...

In today’s edition: If you read Richard Powers’s novel “The Overstory,” the sad fate of the American chestnut tree will be familiar ... Sugarloaf Mountain’s forest by the time she ...

Our goal is to have these trees available to the public by the fall of 2023. We have also embarked on a multi-university collaborative effort to identify the tolerance genes in Chinese chestnut (see ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

(Bloomberg) — Startup Chestnut Carbon has raised $160 million to plant, restore and manage trees on degraded farmland ... supporting the growth of its forest restoration and conservation ...