All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," Retired forester John Scrivani explains. They’re beautiful. "And they’re ...

JENNINGS RANDOLPH LAKE, W.Va. – Jennings Randolph Lake staff and volunteers planted 40 American chestnut seedlings along Sunset Trail at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, owned and ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON - Its sweeping canopy inspired poets, and its strong, straight timber shaped the stories of life in rural Appalachia, until the tree itself became the stuff of fiction. It is now more than ...

Tom Klak, an environmental scientist and American chestnut expert, carried a shovel on the White House lawn on April 24, ...

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The American chestnut — once among the largest, tallest, fastest-growing trees in the eastern U.S. woodlands — could see a revival on Long Island. A group of Island environmentalists hopes to restore ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...

Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.