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

Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans, Indigenous farmers were growing crops like squash, corn and beans in earthen mounds they built on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

More property owners planting trees translates to more American chestnut trees returning to native forests. “It's a long-term labor of love because it's a very long-term project where we have to ...

Before the blight, the American chestnut was the dominant tree in hardwood forests from ... the east (as it had been for the eastern woodland Native Americans). Hogs and cattle were fattened ...

The achievement capped decades of research and breeding by The American Chestnut Foundation ... The goal is to have a tree that favors the towering qualities of the native, but enjoys the ...

The American chestnut had none ... Chestnuts made up 1 in 4 trees in their native habitat and were one of the biggest and fastest-growing trees in the eastern forests. The largest among them ...

Chestnuts are displayed at a food vendor as a person dressed as Santa Claus offers rides, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alyssa Goodman) It’s been a very long time since vendors ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...