The American chestnut was all but destroyed by fungal blight and logged as settlements spread west when the United States was settled by Europeans. But lately, it’s making a comeback. Endangered for ...

Winter is a great time to notice more about the tree in your yard, on your street or road, especially by taking a walk or hike at a local park. The fresh air will do you some good on a sunny day.

The classic and trusted book “Fifty Common Trees of Indiana” by T.E. Shaw was published in 1956 as a user-friendly guide to local species. Nearly 70 years later, the publication has been updated ...

The name of my column is “Nature Watch,” and usually at this time of the year there’s a lot of outside activity to write about. But, due to the recent abnormally warm temperatures, it seems like ...

“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.

One recent late afternoon David and I drove up to the pipeline cut on the wooded hillside to look at the color changes of the trees. A lot of them have just now started to change but some were already ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...

For more than a century, scientists and conservationists have tried to bring back the American chestnut, a tree once so common it shaped forests across the eastern United States. Now, Virginia Tech ...

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 ...