The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this week approved a genetically modified American chestnut tree developed over ...

The United States Department of Agriculture deregulated Darling 54, a genetically modified variety of American chestnut designed to resist the tree-killing chestnut blight. Does this mean that the ...

Watch the video documenting the return of thousands of wild American chestnuts: The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Aug. 31, 2026 — Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant ...

American chestnut trees once towered over the landscape, dominating forests in parts of the eastern United States. But in the late 1800s, a fungal blight virtually wiped them out across the country.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials from the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service gather near the White House for an Arbor Day ceremony in ...

When the Trump administration planted a pair of modified American chestnut trees near the White House this spring — and more recently eased permitting requirements for planting such trees — it renewed ...

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Dine-in Roast Beef Dinner: 4 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 474 Yalick Road, Dallas. Tickets are $16 for adults and $5 for children younger than 12 and will be sold at ...