Now, scientists are using a combination of techniques to develop blight-resistant trees from this remaining population. The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can ...

Now, scientists are using a combination of techniques to develop blight-resistant trees from this remaining population. The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can ...

James is helping the American Chestnut Foundation bring back a version of the American chestnut that can survive in the wild. The surviving trees’ progeny are critical to their effort.

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...

Once a hallmark of forests from Georgia to New England, American chestnuts now exist mostly as a vast network of root systems ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber ... The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics ...

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber ... The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics ...

Still, American chestnut trees are better-suited for timber ... The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly American in genetics ...