Deep in the frozen forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most surprising ...

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...

Ancient ridge fields in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula show how Indigenous Menominee communities practiced large-scale farming.

The Aultman Watershed Association for Restoring the Environment, in partnership with Green Forests Work, recently planted more than 8,000 seedling trees, including 400 American chestnut trees, on a re ...

He explained that there have been considerations of breeding the American chestnut with the Chinese chestnut to help combat the disease. He also presented the board with two chestnut trees.

is a medium to tall tree native to North America. A member of the Fagaceae family, this tree is closely related to other commonly known trees such as all species of oak and the American chestnut tree.

With the onset of the rainy season, Puerto Vallarta’s municipal government will plant 5,200 two-meter-tall trees—parotas, capomos, primaveras, rosa morada, cedars, and mahogany—to offset environmental ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the ...

Let us know what you think at [email protected]. Once upon a time, American chestnut trees thrived across the forests of the eastern United States. It’s estimated that there were about four billion of ...

But the schools, which operated for roughly 150 years, had a devastating impact on Native American communities. Staff at the schools worked to strip Native children of their traditions and heritage.

Once known as the “sequoias of the East,” American chestnuts ... animals — tree frogs’ own babies, their tadpoles, were fed, Jeffrey explained, by falling chestnut leaves — and chestnuts were a huge ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a formal apology Tuesday for the state’s role in a boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of ...