What To Do If You Find Orange Gashes In Your Tree Bark

Orange cankers and cracked bark on chestnut trees may signal a destructive fungal disease that spreads more easily than many ...
Purdue University

Chestnut trees to spread across landscape again, says Purdue scientist

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...
Bowdoin College

Blight-Tolerant Chestnuts From the Sprague Family Land Planted at the White House

Tom Klak, an environmental scientist and American chestnut expert, carried a shovel on the White House lawn on April 24, ...
The News Journal

Why an American chestnut tree in Centreville is the 'holy grail' for conservationists

After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource” by the Delaware Nature Society. Jim ...
KUOW

How GMOs Might Save The American Chestnut Tree

To save the American chestnut tree, researchers want to release genetically engineered trees into the wild to reproduce. It would be a first — a possible breakthrough and an irreversible experiment.
New Hampshire Public Radio

UNH’s chestnut trees may not repopulate forests. But they’re still helping the effort.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...
New York Post

Scientists hope genetic engineering can revive the American chestnut tree

A day before Earth Day, retired forester Rex Mann watched as scientists signed an agreement with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina to allow for the eventual planting of ...
DelmarvaNow

Column: Extinctions are worse than we think; chestnut trees are an example

Few who delve into the annals of American biological history have not lamented over the loss of the American chestnut (Castanae dentata). For 40 million years these stately trees ran the gamut of the ...
Los Angeles Times

Should we resurrect the American chestnut tree with genetic engineering?

The wild chestnuts around this leafy college town used to grow in such great numbers that locals collected the nuts by the bushel and shipped them off to New York City for a small fortune. These days, ...
NPR

The American chestnut was wiped out a century ago. Could it make a comeback?

The American chestnut tree was once called "the redwood of the East" because of how huge it could grow. It was an amazing food source: each fall, the tree would drop an unbelievable bounty of tasty ...