The American Chestnut Foundation, a mostly volunteer organization, is looking for help in restoring the once-abundant ...

The American Chestnut Foundation is working to bring the American Chestnut species back. This weekend, they’ll be in Bedford ...

The goal is to help distribute American chestnut saplings and eventually grow the trees. The American chestnut was once one of the most abundant trees in North America before a fungal disease began to ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

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 ...

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...

Michigan offers a variety of nuts ready to pick and harvest from the wild. Here's what to know before foraging.

There's a new effort to replant functionally extinct trees that once populated the New York City area by the billions. Researchers are working to make the American Chestnut more resistant to the ...