CentralJersey.com

The evolving story of New Jersey’s chestnuts

Each fall, nuts and leaves from the trees would blanket forest floors with nutrients. Rich in calories, vitamin C, and ...
LAist

Researchers have been trying to breed fungus-resistant chestnut trees for 100 years

And now a checkup of sorts on the American chestnut, a tree that was a big part of forests in the eastern United States until 1904, when a fungus from Asia started killing them. Since the 1920s, ...
WHYY

Delaware hikers take trek to ‘middle of nowhere’ for glimpse of rare adult American chestnut

Courtney Streett (right foreground) gazes up at the American chestnut tree in Delaware with other hikers as guide Joe Sebastiani (gray baseball cap) gives a tutorial. (Cris Barrish/WHYY) Octogenarian ...
SFGate

Delaware American chestnut tree deemed 'precious resource'

CENTREVILLE, Del. (AP) — After the species was devastated by an Asian blight in the early 20th century, a single American chestnut tree in Centreville has been deemed a “precious resource” by the ...
Morning Call PA

American chestnut trees that grew to 100 feet tall used to tower over the Pennsylvania landscape until blight came along. Now there are new hopes for a revival.

Sunlight filtered through the overstory of a thick Pennsylvania forest and a few rays fell upon the long, serrated leaves of the American chestnut trees down below. The higher Mike Manes, 78, hiked, ...