“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to ...

Also most likely any chestnuts you roasted would not be American Chestnuts. Why? A chestnut blight in the early 20th century ...

Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them about using modern tools of genetic ...

The Kump Education Center in Elkins welcomed community members Wednesday evening for a lecture titled “Returning the American ...

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — American chestnut trees once covered the state of West Virginia, providing essential materials and feeding its residents, but in the early 20th century, they were ...

The American chestnut almost was wiped out in the 20th century. Can scientists and the Park Service bring back this iconic tree? At the end of the long weekend last April, the volunteers were cold, ...

it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American chestnut tree in a forest? The odds are low. As the Wall Street Journal ...

Aug 17, 2024 Aug 17, 2024 Updated Aug 18, 2024 The American chestnut tree was one of the most populous and mighty trees in eastern North America before a blight over the past century brought it to ...

The Tree Talks Lecture Series, sponsored by the Elkins Tree Board and Kump Education Center, Elkins, continues tonight at 7 p ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air ...

An additional step, regeneration, is needed for embryo tissue culture. To enhance blight resistance in the American chestnut tree, we are studying several gene products, regulatory regions of genes to ...