CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...

But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a deadly fungus wiped out billions of American chestnut trees from the forests of eastern North America. But,... Though we hear about them every holiday season in that ...

Filled with a deep sense of purpose, scores of volunteers spent a blustery morning Sunday planting seeds in a Martic Township field. Their mission was to help re-establish Lancaster County's ...

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, ...

CRESSONA — A local orchard will become a test site in the rejuvenation of the beleaguered American chestnut tree Friday during a tree planting project. The American Chestnut Foundation will plant an ...

For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been ...

Huntsville researchers working with the American Chestnut Foundation are driving a leap forward in efforts to restore the ...

ASHEVILLE, NC - April 29, 2013 at 10 am, volunteers from the Carolinas Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will gather to plant 100 potentially blight and root-rot resistant American ...

Darling transgenic American chestnuts have shown significantly enhanced tolerance to the chestnut blight fungus, and will soon be evaluated by federal regulatory agencies before potential public ...