Considered 'functionally extinct,' the rare tree species was found healthy in a publicly accessible hiking area in town.

The West Virginia Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation hosted its Scientific and Technical Session where the latest ...

T he first time I experienced chestnut flour was in a region of Tuscany called Garfagnana, north of Lucca. I ate pasta made ...

The fungus has decimated chestnut trees in the national park, and larger trees have been slow to replace them.

The American Chestnut tree once thrived, numbering in the thousands from Maine to Alabama. In the late 1800s and early 1900s a fungus imported from Japanese Chestnut trees took hold on its ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

DANIEL: Richard Karban is an ecologist at UC Davis. He says that Braun described forests filled with American chestnut trees. KARBAN: Oh, the nuts are fantastic. They're a really beautiful tree.