NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...

OMP resident Tom Dalluge is devoted to saving, nurturing and growing American chestnuts on the Old Mission Peninsula.

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...

Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...

ELKINS, W.Va. (WBOY) — The Kump Education Center in Elkins welcomed community members Wednesday evening for a lecture titled “Returning the American Chestnut to Our Forests.” The event featured guest ...

The loss of American chestnut trees, Castanea denatata, ranks as one of the most devastating botanical disasters in U.S. history. Before the introduction of chestnut blight in 1904, there were over 4 ...

The Anne Frank Center chose to gift one of the saplings to Seton Hill because of the center's work to combat antisemitism over the years. The Anne Frank Center chose to gift one of the saplings to ...