We are continuously studying interactions between our transgenic trees and the environment and potential impacts on ecosystem and human health. A series of articles summarizing various safety tests ...

Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant trees back into forest ecosystems of the eastern United States. The American Chestnut Project has evolved from basic research into a ...

“The more diversity you lose, the less resilient that forest ecosystem is.” The American Chestnut Foundation, among others, has been trying for decades to breed a hybrid that is mostly ...

The American chestnut had none. Its range at one point ... “I call it the wheat of the forest,” James said. “It fed the ecosystem. And now you take that away from it, it’s so much poorer ...

We are at the tipping point in ecology where we can continue to hold the wool over our eyes, or we can be the heroes our ...

“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to ...

Ecosystem effects of aquatic herbivory by moose and beaver ... Identification of different ecotypes and centers of adaptive genetic diversity in American chestnut. The American Chestnut Foundation.