From the northernmost reach of the White Mountains and Mahoosuc Highlands of Maine, through the crystalline escarpments of the Catskills and Blue Ridge — down into the Shenandoah, Cumberland and ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...

Film gives the lie to claims by some researchers that genetically engineered trees are the only path to restoration of the ...

The American chestnut was once the most abundant and economically important tree species in the eastern forests of North America. But then a fungal pathogen was brought over from Asia and has caused ...

GRANVILLE – While The American Chestnut Foundation recently announced an effort to produce a transgenic blight-resistant American chestnut was a failure, two orchards in Granville continue on the ...

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Growing up in the 1920s, Bill Lord remembers feasting on the sweet, rich nuts of American chestnut trees -- the majestic species that a fungus would soon all but wipe out. More than a ...

While our culinary memories of the American chestnut have mostly faded, the fruit of the "bread tree" as it is sometimes called, remains firmly rooted in European and Asian tradition. Andrea Guastella ...

CENTREVILLE, Del. (AP) — After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource” by the ...

WASHINGTON - Its sweeping canopy inspired poets, and its strong, straight timber shaped the stories of life in rural Appalachia, until the tree itself became the stuff of fiction. It is now more than ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, many of us will be sitting down to hearty feasts with family and friends. Time-tested recipes on worn index cards or heavily thumbed cookbooks are combed ...