“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 ...

developing American chestnut tissue culture, field testing chestnut trees, encouraging public participation through the identification of rare remnant surviving chestnut trees, collecting and ...

Its seeds, encased in large prickly burrs ... a restoration coordinator with the American Chestnut Foundation. In 1911, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle proclaimed that “all living chestnut trees ...

The team of scientists with the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project continue to prioritize rigorous science and discovery before large-scale restoration, and regulatory approval will ...

The American Chestnut tree, once known as the “Redwood of the East,” faced this grim reality in the early 20th century. But ...