Dauphin County (WHTM) Here at the Boyd Big Tree Preserve in Dauphin County, a very special harvest is underway. Biologists Stephen Hoy of the American Chestnut Foundation and Noah Vincent of Penn ...
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 ...
Concord Monitor: Granite Geek: Genetic mix-up has derailed the program to bring back the American chestnut tree
Granite Geek: Genetic mix-up has derailed the program to bring back the American chestnut tree
Auburn Citizen: Eco Talk: The benefits of chestnut, hazelnut trees as climate changes
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.
Daily Camera: Jeff Mitton: Horse chestnut trees provide a floral display but produce nothing edible
Each spring, a horse chestnut tree on the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus puts on a floral display that stops people, even some of the multitasking undergraduates, in their tracks. The tree is ...
Jeff Mitton: Horse chestnut trees provide a floral display but produce nothing edible
Eastern Kentucky University is working to preserve your holiday traditions with their participation in an effort to revive the Chestnut tree in Kentucky. Volunteers planted 615 new chestnut seedlings ...
The Conversation: New genetically engineered American chestnut will help restore the decimated, iconic tree
American chestnut trees were once among the most majestic hardwood trees in the eastern deciduous forests, many reaching 80 to 120 feet in height and eight feet or more in diameter. The “then ...