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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...