The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic ...

The chestnut blight arrived in the late 1800s, when Americans seeking to introduce a chestnut tree with larger nuts inadvertently brought the blight along with it.

The American chestnut tree was once a prominent member of eastern American forests, but was effectively lost because of a fungal blight pathogen that hitchhiked to the U.S. on resistant species of ...

Saving the American chestnut: A story of renewal, regrowth and hope Science and community are uniting to rescue Appalachia's legendary tree species — unless it's rescuing us ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Hold off on lighting that open fire — chestnut trees being planted by the University of New Hampshire won’t produce a crop for roasting for at least five years. But officials ...

It's an environmental tragedy dwarfing even the more well-known Dutch Elm disease, scourge of suburban streets. And there's an unfortunate catch to the fight against American chestnut tree blight ...

The goal of this "assisted migration" experiment is to see if humans could not only help the American chestnut tree deal with climate change but also help restore it.

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers ...

FISKDALE — Bringing a species back from extinction is normally considered impossible outside of the "Jurassic Park" movie series. Although the students working at the Tantasqua American Chestnut ...

Much as animal species can be bred for hardiness by selectively mating the strongest pairs, the scientists gather the handful of chestnut trees from each stand that show improved blight resistance ...