Historians called chestnuts a “cradle-to-grave” tree, their rot-resistant wood once used for building ... a restoration coordinator with the American Chestnut Foundation.

Unlike oak, the wood was light and easy to work ... Molecular research teams have devoted decades to creating a transgenic American chestnut. This required first identifying how the fungus ...

“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to ...

Our first species is the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) sometimes called the “Sequoia of the East”. This species was once found thriving throughout eastern forests from central Maine west to ...