In an exclusive partnership with The American Chestnut Foundation, The Obscure Distillery - makers of "unusual and ...

American chestnut trees once covered the state of West Virginia, providing essential materials and feeding its residents, but ...

Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them about using modern tools of genetic ...

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 on ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...

Huff is optimistic the American chestnut can be saved, and that’s why he meticulously tends to the 74 plots he has planted over the last several years.

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres ...

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 ...

it’s possible you’ve even driven down a Chestnut Street in your hometown. But have you ever seen a healthy American chestnut tree in a forest? The odds are low. As the Wall Street Journal ...

Learn more. BRIDGTON — Join us for a special screening of Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut, an award-winning documentary that sheds light on the remarkable history and ongoing ...