This has been a challenging year for everyone due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including our American chestnut Research and Restoration Program at SUNY ESF. But our team has risen to the occasion and ...

Efforts to restore American chestnut trees to their rightful place in the North American forest ecosystem are progressing, although progress has come at a slower pace than once expected, according to ...

DOVER — With the help of a tree in Farmington, those working to breed a blight-resistant American chestnut tree say they are seeing positive results, giving them hope they will reach their goal in the ...

FARMINGTON, N.H. – A healthy American chestnut tree discovered on a New Hampshire farm may serve as the "mother tree" to bring back a species nearly wiped out by Asian blight. The tree was found on a ...

A group of tree enthusiasts is taking painstaking care to protect and pollinate Columbia?s chestnut tree. “Our job is to find the survivors, so we can bring them into the breeding program,” said Essie ...

MONSON - One of the unexpected results of the devastating tornado that tore through Monson seven years ago on June 1, 2011 was the revival of the American chestnut tree atop Mt. Ella in Flynt Park. As ...

The region’s latest hope for undoing one of the America’s worst near-extinctions is not, it must be admitted, terribly impressive. “It’s not much of a tree to look at: Kind of scraggly, at the most 4 ...

Flowering plants exhibit a remarkable diversity of pollination mechanisms and breeding systems that underpin their reproductive success and influence ecosystem function. Abiotic vectors such as wind ...