Now, scientists are using a combination of techniques to develop blight-resistant trees from this remaining population. The American Chestnut Foundation recognizes you can’t improve what you can ...

is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant ...

but it is clear that Darling trees have better blight tolerance than any other American chestnut we have studied. We continue to investigate offspring of genetically diverse Darling 54 families, ...

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 ...

Niko Nantsis of the American Chestnut Foundation in North Sea in September. Chestnut seed from Route 9 Cooperative that is being given to members of the Southampton Trails Preservation Society.

However, The American Chestnut Foundation sells American chestnut seedlings in Eastern states and ships seeds only to the Midwestern U.S. Your next best option is Chinese chestnut (Castanea ...

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D.

Flight 93 staff have partnered with scientists and foresters from the American Chestnut Foundation to plant seedlings they hope will be the first in more than a century to withstand an invasive fungus ...

allowing them to sequester more carbon than other trees over the same period. And since American chestnut trees are more often used for high-quality hardwood products such as furniture, they hold the ...

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 tree was the American Chestnut, which was wiped out by the chestnut blight in the 1930s. This July, Colson and Loon Echo Land Trust (LELT) Stewardship Manager Jon Evans put six saplings into the ...