Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.” Most likely you either sang or listened to this song over the holidays. This song is a ...

A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about ...

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) was once a dominant tree species in eastern North America, but it faced near extinction due to the chestnut blight, a disease caused by the introduced ...

Over 400 nonnative pests have been introduced since the 1800s, with early tragedies that included the Chestnut blight (1904), which wiped out the American Chestnut, and Dutch Elm Disease ...

Pre-American so we have the chestnut blight.” Close to all of the wood is from the original barn. What needed to be replaced has been sourced from other pre-American barns, right down to the stakes.

Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...

BY MOLLEE FRANCISCO [email protected] Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, mistletoe hung where every couple tries to stop, the holly and the ivy – these are just a few of the plants that ...

There’s a new festival in town. This past weekend saw the first-ever PA Chestnut Festival, held in Castanea to a stupendous turnout well in the hundreds, despite the freezing temperatures. The ...

A stand of American chestnut trees that somehow escaped a blight that killed off nearly all their kind in the early 1900s has been discovered along a hiking trail not far from President Franklin D.

This review summarizes European and American chestnut’s main biotic stresses and discusses breeding and biotechnological efforts developed over the last decades, having ink disease and chestnut blight ...