Scientists like to say that their work usually proceeds two steps forward and one step back. But sometimes that’s optimistic. Case in point: A scientific effort I’ve been writing about since 2010, the ...

When local folks who have been working to return the glorious American chestnut tree to our forest gather Saturday in Lebanon to celebrate an anniversary, there will be a big question looming overhead ...

Tim Savage is a tree man. “They’re just these alive, beautiful organisms,” Savage said. “They just have this, like, um, longevity like a statute and a dignity and a life.” Many of his plants start on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ELKINS, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Kump Education Center in Elkins welcomed community members Wednesday evening for a lecture titled ...

From the northernmost reach of the White Mountains and Mahoosuc Highlands of Maine, through the crystalline escarpments of the Catskills and Blue Ridge — down into the Shenandoah, Cumberland and ...

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

SYRACUSE, NY – Nov. 8, 2023 - The American Chestnut Restoration Project at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) received a $636,000 grant from the USDA’s National Institute of ...

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be immortalized as a true forest giant of the eastern USA, often up to 100' tall, and frequently with a trunk diameter of ...