Called the 1,000 Chestnut Challenge ( nyrp.org/chestnut ), the project’s goal is to eventually establish 1,000 thriving ...

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 ...

Teach your children to identify local trees and plants by collecting ... of the same sort on the table - all the oak leaves together, all the chestnut leaves, and so on. They should choose the ...

Horse chestnut and sweet chestnut trees aren’t related, even though they have similar names.

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...