New Jersey cultivators Luke and Rachel Tarvin of Chesterfield have, in the last six years, taken the plunge to plant about 60 ...

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

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic version ...

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

BLACKSBURG — A group of fourth graders went home on Wednesday afternoon a little messier than they were when they left home that morning. About 50 kids helped town officials and members of the ...

Scientists like to say that their work usually proceeds two steps forward and one step back. But sometimes that’s optimistic. Case in point: A scientific effort I’ve been writing about since 2010, the ...

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 ...

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...

The scent of freshly roasted chestnuts and hot apple cider filled the air at the ThorpeWood lodge near Thurmont on Sunday afternoon. The lodge itself is made of chestnut wood, making it a fitting ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Sen. Kit Bond has helped get federal dollars for a University of Missouri research center, and officials there have helped plant chestnut trees on Bond's Mexico, Mo., property. Under ...