Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do the Erie County municipalities of Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There’s a reason you find so many stretches of road ...

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The USDA has begun a 45-day open comment period for its review of genetically-grown chestnut tree, developed by researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry ...

“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.

IN THE BAG: Volunteers with The American Chestnut Foundation use transgenic pollen to pollinate trees in a New York research orchard. Photo courtesy of TACF No one ever said it would be simple. When ...

When foresters saw the flagging leaves on old oaks in Richfield's Augsburg Park last year, they thought they were seeing a disease called oak wilt. It was only when they sent a sample to a lab at the ...

On a late June morning I met up with about 25 people at the parking area of the Wyndham Land Trust’s Bull Hill Project in Thompson and Woodstock. We weren’t there just to hike to the top of Bull Hill ...

It is an exciting time in the field of conservation and biotechnology. For the first time, it appears likely that a tree that has been developed with genetic engineering (GE) could be approved by U.S.

The chestnut tree was once the dominant tree in forests east of the Mississippi River, but that was before the chestnut blight. First observed at the Bronx Zoo in 1904, the blight destroyed more than ...

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; ...