Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Erie has a Chestnut Street. So do Cranesville and Corry, Girard and Lake City, Edinboro, Waterford and North East. There's a ...

“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 hear there’s a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, many of us will be sitting down to hearty feasts with family and friends. Time-tested recipes on worn index cards or heavily thumbed cookbooks are combed ...

Littleton is at the forefront of a recovery effort for the ravaged population of American chestnut trees - once one of the most common trees on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, ranging from ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was... Blight destroyed the American chestnut tree. Can scientists ...

The American chestnut is a singular, iconic tree of the eastern United States. It was majestic, supported animals that lived under it and provided valuable timber. It was everywhere. But then ...

Before globalization and colonialism brought the invasive chestnut blight pathogen to American soils, for thousands of years, the Cherokee made a cough syrup from the leaves of the American chestnut ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...