From American hornbeam to Chinese chestnuts, local woodlands offer a variety of nuts worth harvesting as trees display their ...

New Jersey cultivators Luke and Rachel Tarvin of Chesterfield have, in the last six years, taken the plunge to plant about 60 ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, a mostly volunteer organization, is looking for help in restoring the once-abundant ...

The American chestnut tree, which once numbered 4 billion but almost went extinct in the 1950s because of an invasion of Asian fungus, may be on its way to recovery through scientific advances and new ...

From a reign of 40 million years to disappearing in 40, the blight fungus that destroyed American chestnut trees has been called “the greatest ecological disaster to strike the world’s forests in all ...

Nearly four billion American chestnut trees once grew in the eastern United States, dominating forests from Maine to Florida. Wood logged from the massive trees helped build everything from homes to ...

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Imagine no more roasting chestnuts on an open fire. What was once one of the most dominant trees in America has been dying off. The American chestnut tree was nearly gone, wiped ...

Emily Dobry, a master’s candidate in horticulture at Penn State Behrend, and Bryan Hed, a plant pathologist at the Lake Erie Regional Grape Research and Extension Center, stand Nov. 11, 2021, between ...

Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do the Erie County municipalities of Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There’s a reason you find so many stretches of road ...