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 ...

The American chestnut was once the dominant species of eastern U.S. forests and thrived for an estimated 40 million years. The trees grew fast and tall and in great abundance. It’s estimated that the ...

The American chestnut was once the most abundant and economically important tree species in the eastern forests of North America. But then a fungal pathogen was brought over from Asia and has caused ...

An invasive fungus has killed billions of American chestnut trees since the early 1900s. Forestry experts in southeastern Ohio may have found a solution. His branches ruffle in the light breeze under ...

A century ago the most dominant tree in the U.S., the American chestnut, towered over the land and ruled the East Coast forests from Georgia to Maine. Yet in as short a time as the span of a human ...

In this and my next two essays, I’d like to explore: (A.) How, in the first half of the 20th century, Americans unintentionally made an absolute hash of the deciduous forests of Eastern North America; ...

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a ...