SYRACUSE, NY – Sept. 15, 2025 — The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) received a three-year, $1.5 million grant to support its American Chestnut Research & Restoration Project.

MCGRAW, NY / ACCESS Newswire / July 31, 2025 / SilvaBio is pleased to announce a historic milestone in the restoration of the iconic American chestnut - advanced by its collaborators at SUNY College ...

Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The USDA has begun a 45-day open comment period for its review of genetically-grown chestnut tree, developed by researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry ...

The SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will present the 2015 Sol Feinstone Environmental Award to Herbert F. Darling Jr., celebrating his leadership and outstanding efforts ...

After more than a century of devastation from deadly blight, the iconic American chestnut tree could be brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to novel genomic tools and carefully bred ...

Researchers use genomes to help restore the American chestnut population and adjust species breeding to the changing climate. Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their ...

Across the Northeast, forests are haunted by the ghosts of American giants. A little more than a century ago, these woods brimmed with American chestnuts—stately Goliaths that could grow as high as ...

Before globalization and colonialism brought the invasive chestnut blight pathogen to American soils, for thousands of years, the Cherokee made a cough syrup from the leaves of the American chestnut ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...