Q: What can you tell me about American and Chinese chestnut? A: American chestnut (genus Castanea, species dentate) is in the beech family. This tree was a plentiful species, providing 25 percent of ...
Don Stephens uses salvaged American chestnut to make striking interior trim and furniture. When woodworker Don Stephens buys material for his interior trim and furniture jobs, he often buys it in ...
Leading the way down a grassy lane on an October morning, Tim Eck paused regularly to look skyward and examine the treetops bordering a narrow path cutting through a southern Lancaster County chestnut ...
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 ...
Christina M.K. Kaunzinger Ph.D., of Rutgers; cuts back invasive plants crowding a chestnut tree in a forest at Duke Farms in Hillsborough. Rutgers ecologists are part of a multistate effort to bring ...