It’s time to appreciate the iconic American beech tree; it comprises nearly 40% of our northern forests, and the species ...

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that it has prepared a revised draft environmental impact ...

A blight-resistant chestnut tree developed by researchers at SUNY ESF is moving forward in its review by the USDA.

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers. "So here is actually some flowers," Retired forester John Scrivani explains. They’re beautiful.

The chestnut blight is a fungus accidentally brought to North America on imported Asiatic trees in the late 1800s, and it’s devastated our wild American species, rendering it functionally extinct.

So the tree has created callous tissue, which is compartmentalizing out the blight." He further explained, "So the blight actually grows only in the bark, and it produces oxalic acid.

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers.

All over eastern North America right now, chestnut breeders are pollinating tree flowers.

This isolates the female flowers on breeding trees from the huge sea of male pollen that’s all over the area once the catkins release. This way, breeders like John can control the crosses they’re ...

Once a towering presence in northeastern forests, the American Chestnut is making a quiet comeback in Brooklyn.