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The American Chestnut Foundation oversees a tree-breeding program with chapters in 15 Eastern states, and is closing in on blight-resistant American chestnuts trees it hopes could revive the species.

For now, the EBCI is scouting out wild chestnuts that survived the blight, and planting hybrid trees on its land in partnership with The American Chestnut Foundation. (Photography via Shutterstock) On ...

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 ...

They still are: About 430 million American chestnut trees exist across the species’ native range today. In a sense, they were buying time for us to figure out how to save them.

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

These are original American chestnut trees, and I have emailed colleges and many other people to no avail. I guess they’re truly not interested.

Olean man discovers American chestnut trees − which are functionally extinct − on his wooded property.

The Town of Simsbury announced Oct. 11 that reports made by local hikers over the summer had identified a mature purebred American chestnut tree at Ethel Walker Woods. "The tree is a rare find in ...

Efforts to save the chestnut began as early as the 1920s. In the 1980s the American Chestnut Foundation started a program to restore the tree across its range, using a time-tested agricultural ...

Varying approaches to recovery. Those seeking to restore chestnut forests have taken three approaches: selective breeding to cultivate blight resistance in surviving 100% American chestnut trees ...

A young chestnut tree is seen along a row of research trees at the American Chestnut Foundation's Meadowview Research Farm Oct. 4, 2022, in Meadowview, Virginia. (Brendan Smialowski / ...