Parking near the base, I came upon an experimental planting of American chestnut trees. Then, hiking up the mountain, I found an American chestnut sapling in the forest proper. This was a sprout ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

That’s led some scientists at the University of Vermont to try to jumpstart this process for an already beleaguered tree: the American chestnut. “We're simultaneously trying to restore the ...

After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource” by the Delaware Nature Society.

Chestnut trees were a staple of life in colonial America, and many who lived there, Beecher included, could not imagine life without them: “Long live the chestnut tree; and the chestnut woods on ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...

Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property on ...

Courtney Streett (right foreground) gazes up at the American chestnut tree in Delaware with other hikers as guide Joe Sebastiani (gray baseball cap) gives a tutorial. (Cris Barrish/WHYY) Octogenarian ...