Researchers at SUNY-ESF are working to develop blight-tolerant American Chestnut trees. American Chestnut Trees were threatened by disease more than 100 years ago. This chestnut blight is caused by an ...

“I said ‘Dad, what caused all these trees to die?’ he asked. “Was it lightning?’” It wasn’t lightning. His dad told him of the once-dominant American chestnut and the blight that ...

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber, they’re culturally loved by people all over North America and they used to be an important species for the ecological health of ...

UNITED STATES — It’s been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It’s no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it ...

It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it wafts from street carts.

12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman) An unmodified, open-pollinated American chestnut bur grows on a tree at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science & Forestry ...

There are plenty of twigs about after the recent storms to help anyone keen to learn a bit more about how to identify the ...

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber, they’re culturally loved by people all over North America and they used to be an important species for the ecological health of ...