Federal regulatory approval for an experimental American chestnut tree made in Syracuse hit a snag recently when researchers discovered that they’ve been unwittingly experimenting with the wrong tree.

“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 hear there’s a ...

To facilitate a harvest that could prove a key step in the decades-long effort to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut, Go Native Tree Farm employees used a 55-foot lift to gather the neon ...

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...

It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it wafts from street carts.

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D.

And like cypress, the American chestnut is valued for its beauty. These days few chestnut trees manage to reach maturity due to a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep got one expert on the phone who says ...

GRANVILLE – While The American Chestnut Foundation recently announced an effort to produce a transgenic blight-resistant American chestnut was a failure, two orchards in Granville continue on the ...