CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Imagine no more roasting chestnuts on an open fire. What was once one of the most dominant trees in America has been dying off. The American chestnut tree was nearly gone, wiped ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a deadly fungus wiped out billions of American chestnut trees from the forests of eastern North America. But,... Though we hear about them every holiday season in that ...

West Coast Chestnut is a family-owned and operated farm and chestnut nursery based in Oregon's Willamette Valley, with more than 30 years of experience growing perennial crops including chestnuts, ...

Allan “Buzz” Ferver, a 66-year-old with a fetching grin and an Abe Lincoln-style beard, stood at his kitchen island holding a clear plastic bag. Inside was a pale, nondescript meal, a few shades ...

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...

BENNINGTON -- Students in Mount Anthony Union Middle School's sustainability class were able to play a major role in the ongoing struggle to save the American chestnut tree on Wednesday, with the help ...

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 ...

OMP resident Tom Dalluge is devoted to saving, nurturing and growing American chestnuts on the Old Mission Peninsula.

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, many of us will be sitting down to hearty feasts with family and friends. Time-tested recipes on worn index cards or heavily thumbed cookbooks are combed ...