Once a defining tree of eastern forests, the American chestnut was nearly erased by a foreign fungus within a few human generations. A genetically engineered line known as Darling 54 has now pushed ...

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...

Many Americans alive today know that there is an American chestnut tree, but few know that it was once a keystone tree species on the East Coast of the United States from Georgia to Maine. According ...

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...

Many years ago, I worked at nursery called Davey Tree farm just northwest of Wooster. While I worked there, I developed a relationship with an arborist who was hired to help the nursery. He had a ...

I do not see many horse chestnuts in home landscapes and your tree is a beautiful specimen. It appears that your tree is suffering from a common fungal disease called horse chestnut leaf blotch.

Scientists like to say that their work usually proceeds two steps forward and one step back. But sometimes that’s optimistic. Case in point: A scientific effort I’ve been writing about since 2010, the ...

Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

Before globalization and colonialism brought the invasive chestnut blight pathogen to American soils, for thousands of years, the Cherokee made a cough syrup from the leaves of the American chestnut ...