The wood is a buttery yellow with a straight grain that works well and is adaptable ... A genuine version of the American chestnut is at hand, but there is one tiny catch that farmers will understand.

“Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” is playing on the radio now in the Northern Hemisphere which begs the question, “What happened to the American chestnut?” Would you be surprised to ...

The past year has been full of challenges and important progress for ESF’s American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project. As most of you know, project co-founders Dr. William Powell and Dr.

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 ...