Notes: Hikers on any Maitland Trail outing are reminded to sign the 2025 online waiver, even if they signed the 2024 waiver.

Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort ...

The Kump Education Center in Elkins welcomed community members Wednesday evening for a lecture titled “Returning the American Chestnut to Our Forests.” Republicans Turn On Donald Trump Over ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaf shapes play an important role in tree identification, providing ...

This was a sprout sent up from old chestnut rootstock that survived underground after the parent tree was felled many decades earlier by the chestnut blight fungus: Cryphonectria parasitica.

For more than 40 years, the American Chestnut Foundation has led efforts to bring back a tree with blight and phytophthora resistance. But for an effective restoration, the trees need diverse ...

Fungal blight decimated the American chestnut tree in the early 20th century, killing billions of trees and altering the life cycle of the species native to the Appalachian Mountain region.

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee takes us ... Come along as we look through real examples of shape, scales, leaf and branches of various local trees. The ...

McDonough. The sapling, planted near the Christine Todd Whitman Science Center, was grown from the horse chestnut tree behind Anne Frank’s secret annex in Amsterdam. Her family spent more ...

"This tree featured in our educational project about the horse chestnut tree, so naturally the children are sad at its loss." The Catholic independent day and boarding school was founded in 1642 ...

American chestnut trees used to be everywhere The chestnut tree once dominated the North American landscape, according to the American Chestnut Foundation, numbering near 4 billion of the largest ...