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 ...

To facilitate a harvest that could prove a key step in the decades-long effort to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut, Go Native Tree Farm employees used a 55-foot lift to gather the neon ...

In the first essay of this three-part series on American chestnuts, I discussed the tree’s near-extinction together with a bit of the ecological, economic, and cultural reasons why that mattered. Once ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — The once-prevalent American chestnut tree was wiped out of West Virginia by blight nearly 100 years ago, but you may be able to help with its restoration efforts. Prior to ...

Many years ago, I worked at nursery called Davey Tree farm just northwest of Wooster. While I worked there, I developed a relationship with an arborist who was hired to help the nursery. He had a ...

FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Did you know that an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees, a species native to Virginia and other states, were wiped out by a fungus? The American Chestnut ...

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Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a reason you find so many stretches of road that carry that name here and ...

WASHINGTON - Its sweeping canopy inspired poets, and its strong, straight timber shaped the stories of life in rural Appalachia, until the tree itself became the stuff of fiction. It is now more than ...

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 ...