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 ...
Five years ago, scientists knew they had reached a milestone in their quest to reclaim one of the country's great forest treasures: Some lines of American chestnut saplings, with help from their ...
Researchers at the University of Memphis used a free app to rediscover a species of beetle that was thought to be extinct.
The American chestnut tree once reigned as the king of hardwoods in the eastern United States. Some 4 billion covered 200 million acres along both sides of the Appalachian Mountains running from Maine ...
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 ...
The wild chestnuts around this leafy college town used to grow in such great numbers that locals collected the nuts by the bushel and shipped them off to New York City for a small fortune. These days, ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. HEBRON — A contest to find the largest trees in Oxford County may have ...
The 38-foot tall chestnut tree behind Rick and Jen Hartlieb’s Robesonia farmhouse has to fight for sunlight from a neighboring maple. Of all the chestnuts on their 12-acre farm, this hardy specimen is ...
The Castanea Township Recreation Committee and Supervisors announced plans for the Second Annual Pennsylvania Chestnut ...
The giant chestnut tree the Puyallup School District removed from a school playground last month can pose a life-threatening allergic reaction only if digested, experts say. Dr. Jeffrey Demain, a ...
Five years ago, scientists knew they had reached a milestone in their quest to reclaim one of the country's great forest treasures: Some lines of American chestnut saplings, with help from their ...