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 ...

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are hybridized with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree across the five boroughs.

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 ...

This column started out as a story about an American chestnut tree in West Union, a Fayette County city of 2,500 about 75 miles north of Cedar Rapids. But now it's about that tree and a murder.

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 ...

In the first half of the 20th century, a fungal disease called blight, inadvertently imported from Asia on trade ships, wiped out nearly all of the trees. Chestnut wood disappeared from newly made ...

The American Chestnut was more than just a tree; it was a cornerstone of the eastern forests. Growing up to 100 feet tall, ...

Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed off within 40 years beginning in 1904. The loss of so many trees not only affected the ecosystems they grew in ...