Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...

In the late 1800s, one of every four trees in our forests was the American chestnut. These stately native trees provided valuable and handsome timber, excellent firewood and plentiful, nutritious nuts ...

On a late June morning I met up with about 25 people at the parking area of the Wyndham Land Trust’s Bull Hill Project in Thompson and Woodstock. We weren’t there just to hike to the top of Bull Hill ...

PHILADELPHIA — The Chestnut Hill Conservancy is thrilled to announce its upcoming virtual lecture, part of the Discovering Chestnut Hill series, featuring Erica Smith Fichman, Acting Manager of the ...

Nearly four billion American chestnut trees once grew in the eastern United States, dominating forests from Maine to Florida. Wood logged from the massive trees helped build everything from homes to ...

To mark the end of Children’s Hospice Week, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales wrote a message acknowledging the work ...

BOYLSTON - The American chestnut tree that last fall produced chestnuts in Worcester for the first time in a century has died because of poor site conditions at Green Hill Park in Worcester. But the ...

Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a reason you find so many stretches of road that carry that name here and ...