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 ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

I have always found the tragic story of the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, of great interest and have followed it since ...

Today, as we see in this video shared by TikTok creator Birdsong Landscapes, the battle to save the American Chestnut still continues. Picture this... You are walking through a forest in the early ...

"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 American in ...

“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 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 ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

“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 ...