A deadly fungus nearly erased the American chestnut from US forests more than a century ago, transforming one of the region's ...

MORGANTOWN — After being wiped out by a blight, the American chestnut tree is making a comeback at West Virginia University’s Davis College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, college officials say.

The first thing that popped into my head when I got word of Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s announcement of the expansion of Beaman Park was, “Oh, I wonder if this is about the Joelton chestnuts?” And then ...

The American chestnut tree was a dominant and iconic species in many Appalachian forests until it was devastated by an introduced fungus from Asia called chestnut blight. A majestic forest tree, an ...

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An invasive blight made the American chestnut tree functionally extinct, wiping out 4 billion trees in the early 20th century. Scientists at SUNY ESF have genetically modified the tree to resist the ...

A Rockingham County man is leading an effort to reintroduce the American chestnut to our part of the Shenandoah Valley. The “redwood of the East” was once a foundational tree of the Appalachian ...

MCGRAW, NY / ACCESS Newswire / April 25, 2026 / Today, SilvaBio, in collaboration with academic partners, reports findings from four independent experiments demonstrating that transgenic American ...

WASHINGTON -- In a quiet stretch of western Massachusetts stands a sycamore so old it was around when the Constitution was signed. It's awe-inspiring, with branches bigger than the entire trunks of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a quiet stretch of western Massachusetts stands a sycamore so old it was around when the Constitution was signed. It’s awe-inspiring, with branches bigger than the entire trunks ...