CAZENOVIA — On Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 6:15 p.m., the Cazenovia Garden Club will welcome citizen scientist Jim English to the Cazenovia Public Library Community Room to present on the history of the ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was ecologically devastating. Short Wave host Emily Kwong dives ...

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 ...

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, ...

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," Retired forester John Scrivani explains. They’re beautiful. "And they’re ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – June 16, 2025 — You can play a vital role in restoring the American chestnut tree to northeastern forests by participating in the open comment period for the blight-tolerant ‘Darling’ ...

While our culinary memories of the American chestnut have mostly faded, the fruit of the "bread tree" as it is sometimes called, remains firmly rooted in European and Asian tradition. Andrea Guastella ...