It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it wafts from street carts.

Fungal blight decimated the American chestnut tree in the early 20th century, killing billions of trees and altering the life cycle of the species native to the Appalachian Mountain region.

tending American chestnut orchards in Nelson, Montgomery, Giles and Craig counties. The trees she tends are remarkable because they are the offspring of older native trees found in Virginia and ...

Researchers at the College of Natural Resources and Environment have collaborated with the American Chestnut Foundation, and together, they confirmed that native trees adapt to their environment ...

Living as long as a thousand years, the American chestnut tree once dominated parts of the Eastern forest canopy, with many Native American nations relying on them for food. But by 1950 ...

Still, American chestnut trees are better suited for timber, they’re culturally loved all over North America, and they used to be an important species for the ecological health of forests ...

Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...

Native American tribes helped the American chestnut ... After the fires burned the northern hardwoods that dominated the region, chestnut trees would often take their place, since their seeds ...

Researchers use genomes to help restore the American chestnut population and adjust species breeding to the changing climate. Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of ...