Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Chestnut Tree Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images From the northernmost reach of the White Mountains and Mahoosuc ...

A project vision has come to fruition at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Patoka Lake in Dubois, Indiana – The Patoka Lake American Chestnut Regeneration Study Orchard. This project not only revives ...

On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of ...

Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, they're called to mind ...

The American chestnut was all but destroyed by fungal blight and logged as settlements spread west when the United States was settled by Europeans. But lately, it’s making a comeback. Endangered for ...

SOUTHWICK — Over the last several weeks hundreds of motorists have traveled along Congamond Road, and most wouldn’t recognize the prickly burrs on the branches of single American chestnut tree that ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - On the University of Iowa’s Oakdale campus in Coralville, you’ll find a rare mature American chestnut tree. Campus arborist Andy Dahl has made trees his life’s work — ...

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 ...