The mission of the American Chestnut Research and Restoration ... shows enhanced tolerance to chestnut blight thanks to a common gene that we inserted into their genome. We hope to return these trees ...

The downfall of the American Chestnut tree is a somber chapter in the history of North American forests. Once towering giants that dominated the landscape of the Eastern United States, these ...

the once prevalent American chestnut became increasingly uncommon throughout its traditional range in the Appalachians. While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot ...

Once the most prominent tree in the state, West Virginia was the only state entirely within the American chestnut’s natural ...

You’ve probably heard of chestnut ... native tree. I’ve been writing about this possibility for nearly a dozen years. For me, the attraction to chestnut trees is partly cultural: My Italian ...