Genetic research could speed the restoration of the American chestnut tree. Plus, "rewilding" small spaces with fast-growing ...

For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been devastated by an invasive fungal disease that killed billions of trees in the early ...

Chestnut trees used to be called "the Redwoods of the East," and they made up 35 percent of northeastern American forests. But in 1904, a fungus began to appear, and what's called "chestnut blight" ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to planting since chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) appreciate a somewhat acidic ...