Most surviving chestnut trees have a relatively tiny diameter ... measuring and recording each sproutling’s growth. Every two years or so, TACF scientists like Westbrook will come to the orchard ...

Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property on ...

The bioeconomy is witnessing a revival of interest in chestnut tannin, a compound extracted from chestnut tree bark or wood, ...

So many things have been ravaging our region’s habitats directly related to our “messing around with Mother Nature.” Our ...

Most of the mature chestnut trees had vanished - the victim of canker fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. That fungus has accounted for the widespread loss of the American chestnut trees throughout ...

SIMSBURY— A single rare tree found deep in the woods of Simsbury could some day help experts produce chestnuts that are resilient to blight. The American Chestnut tree once thrived ...

21). As readers may or may not know, the American chestnut tree was once very nearly extinct due to the chestnut blight caused by a fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Making operations such as ...

The game involves players using conkers — the glossy brown seeds from the horse chestnut tree — threaded onto a string to try and smash their opponent’s chestnut. Each player takes three ...

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To facilitate a harvest that could prove a key step in the decades-long effort to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut, Go Native Tree Farm employees used a 55-foot lift to gather the neon ...

15, 2024. (Cory Sharber/WHYY) Chestnut Hill’s development began in the early 1700s before being incorporated into Philadelphia in 1854. Much of the neighborhood’s character comes from the architecture ...