Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a reason you find so many stretches of road that carry that name here and ...

PITTSFIELD — An orchard of chestnut trees in Springside Park got some tough love Wednesday when a group of volunteers inoculated them against an invasive disease. The action will kill off 80 to 90 ...

Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do the Erie County municipalities of Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There’s a reason you find so many stretches of road ...

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 ...

Optimism is sprouting from blight-resistant chestnut seedlings in the Cherokee National Forest and other remote outdoor labs. The seedlings are hybrids of American chestnuts and Chinese chestnuts. The ...

Many years ago, I worked at nursery called Davey Tree farm just northwest of Wooster. While I worked there, I developed a relationship with an arborist who was hired to help the nursery. He had a ...

WEST SALEM, Wis. - The American Chestnut Foundation has awarded a pair of research grants to scientists who are trying to save the largest remaining stand of American chestnut trees in the nation - ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), working collaboratively with scientists funded by The American Chestnut Foundation, have helped confirm that ...

The chestnut tree was once the dominant tree in forests east of the Mississippi River, but that was before the chestnut blight. First observed at the Bronx Zoo in 1904, the blight destroyed more than ...

Emily Dobry, a master’s candidate in horticulture at Penn State Behrend, and Bryan Hed, a plant pathologist at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, stand Nov. 11, 2021, between ...