Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

Chestnuts, once a staple in the American kitchen, especially among indigenous people, have all but disappeared. Yet, there are signs that chestnuts are reemerging as local and regional farmers are ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a deadly blight accidentally imported into the U.S. from Asia devastated the American Chestnut. Within a span of only two generations, the tree was nearly extinct. The ...

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...