We are here to see more than 2,500 transgenic chestnut seedlings at a seed farm belonging to American Castanea, a new biotech startup. The sprouts, no higher than our knees, are samples of likely ...

Huff is optimistic the American chestnut can be saved, and that’s why he meticulously tends to the 74 plots he has planted over the last several years.

American chestnut trees once covered the state of West Virginia, providing essential materials and feeding its residents, but ...

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Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property on ...

RICHARD KARBAN: She did all of this work - such a pioneer. DANIEL: Richard Karban is an ecologist at UC Davis. He says that Braun described forests filled with American chestnut trees. KARBAN: Oh, the ...

For centuries these towering trees made up a quarter of all trees in the Mountain State. Known as the redwoods of the east, ...

Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property ...

A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species of oak and the American chestnut tree. Found in well-drained acidic soil, this tree can ...

The red oak group includes the northern red, scarlet, black, pin and bear oak trees, and the white oak group incudes the ...

Here’s how to make the most of a visit to this northeastern US region, be it the top places to go whale-watching or how to best enjoy its famous autumn foliage.