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

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 ...

Christy Martin Correspondent for The Daily Times Aug 23, 2024 Aug 23, 2024 When early White settlers entered our region almost 240 years ago it looked much different. There were towering old-growth ...

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...

A century ago, the forests of the Eastern U.S. looked very different. They were packed with towering chestnut trees. But since then, those trees have largely disappeared, and the forests have evolved ...

SYRACUSE, NY – Nov. 8, 2023 - The American Chestnut Restoration Project at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) received a $636,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of ...

A tree species that has battled nearly a century of disease once thrived among the vegetation at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. The trees are getting a chance to thrive again. Poplar Forest staff ...

Two images from the field show a chestnut sprout and a close up of the fungus. The canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, is responsible for widespread loss of American chestnut trees from the ...

ABINGDON, Va. — Moving to Southwest Virginia four years ago, Doug and Stacey Levin grew interested in the story of bringing back the chestnut tree. They learned about the blight of the chestnuts and ...

We had another exciting year with significant progress toward our goals of distributing the blight tolerant, Darling American chestnut trees to the public and restoration programs. First, I would like ...