The giant chestnut tree the Puyallup School District removed from a school playground last month can pose a life-threatening allergic reaction only if digested, experts say. Dr. Jeffrey Demain, a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. AUGUSTA — The Viles Arboretum has been working since the 1980s to bring back ...

The 38-foot tall chestnut tree behind Rick and Jen Hartlieb’s Robesonia farmhouse has to fight for sunlight from a neighboring maple. Of all the chestnuts on their 12-acre farm, this hardy specimen is ...

On a late June morning I met up with about 25 people at the parking area of the Wyndham Land Trust’s Bull Hill Project in Thompson and Woodstock. We weren’t there just to hike to the top of Bull Hill ...

This has been a challenging year for everyone due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including our American chestnut Research and Restoration Program at SUNY ESF. But our team has risen to the occasion and ...

About a century ago the American chestnut tree was attacked by the introduced fungal pathogen (Cryphonectria parasitica). This fungus drove the chestnut to functional extinction. Now, scientists at ...

American chestnut trees once covered the Eastern woodlands of the United States, before they were mostly wiped out during the early 1900s from an invasive blight fungus. Now, an effort to produce and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In bloom the pink-draped Cape Chestnut is a magnificent sight.

Bob Lang of Portage Parks holds a burr, leaf, and seed pod from an American chestnut tree found in Kent. The mayor of Akron recently issued a warning to citizens to be on the lookout for a fungus that ...

Chestnut Square at The Glen, a nonprofit, independent senior living community, celebrated its 20th anniversary in Glenview with a special tree-planting ceremony Aug. 7. The event was attended by ...