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 ...

“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 ...

American chestnut once dominated nearly 200 million acres of land in the eastern Appalachian forests of the United States.

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

“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 American chestnut gave numerous forest animals food and shelter as well. "It's the tree version of quinoa, to create a very bad analogy. Chestnut trees are the gardener's version of the ...

Areas of focus include forest, bioenergy, and water resource management ... Identification of different ecotypes and centers of adaptive genetic diversity in American chestnut. The American Chestnut ...