is to conduct basic and applied research that will lead to the development of blight-tolerant American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata). Our goal is to reintroduce a population of these tolerant ...
Researchers at the College of Natural Resources and Environment have collaborated with the American Chestnut Foundation, and together, they confirmed that native trees adapt to their environment ...
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 ...
They were packed with towering chestnut trees. But since then, those trees have largely disappeared, and the forests have evolved in a new direction, and relatively rapidly. Science reporter Ari ...
Read the full story. — Robin George Andrews GMOs could reboot chestnut trees Living as long as a thousand years, the American chestnut tree once dominated parts of the Eastern forest canopy ...
According to Kim Bryant, the chestnut trees in their orchard are an American-Chinese hybrid that are designed for blight resistance. These trees only get to about 40 to 50 feet tall while American ...