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.

A few weeks ago a reader suggested I write about beech leaf disease, but I said it wasn’t that big a deal. Then I went for a ...

For forty years the American Chestnut Foundation has funded research into producing chestnut trees that have been genetically modified to resist the blight.

Signs of beech bark disease on the bark of an American beech tree. It is one of five species in the region that have been severely affected by invasives in recent decades.

‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it back? Genetic modification is the only credible path to restoring the blight-wracked American chestnut.

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.

Bonsai trees aren't their own species - they're essentially a tree trained to grow miniature in a container. Here are the ...