And like cypress, the American chestnut is valued for its beauty. These days few chestnut trees manage to reach maturity due to a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep got one expert on the phone who says ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D.

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...

It’s a blessing moving into a home, as I did 13 years ago, where the previous owners had been interested in the plantings. Hence a lovely hawthorn, flowering dogwood, flowering quince and a linden ...

Gold Shaw Farm explains how to grow chestnut trees successfully from seed to maturity. Marjorie Taylor Greene's pension ...

The woodland in my backyard on the outskirts of Decatur now has a new distinction — the home of two American chestnut trees, planted there last week by my forestry friend, Dale Higdon. The trees — or ...