CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - On the University of Iowa’s Oakdale campus in Coralville, you’ll find a rare mature American ...

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

For thousands of years, an estimated four billion native American chestnut trees provided bounty for Indigenous Peoples, wildlife, and entire forest ecosystems in New Jersey. Each fall, nuts and ...

For thousands of years, an estimated four billion native American chestnut trees provided bounty for Indigenous Peoples, wildlife, and entire forest ecosystems in New Jersey. Each fall, nuts and ...

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started with a chestnut encased inside a small ziplock filled with moist peat-moss.

Most chestnuts are imported now since the American chestnut tree was nearly wiped out by blight. Chestnuts are distinctively starchy, soft, earthy nuts. If you do pick up some chestnuts during the ...

LACONIA — Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center will begin a carefully planned forest management project on a portion of its 160-acre property in mid-January. Guided by science-based forestry ...

Hannah’s colleague Molly Jacobson was the first to find the chestnut mining bee, or “Andrena rehni” in New York since 1904 ...

This magnificent tree dominated the Eastern landscape with quick-growing specimens that routinely reached heights of 100 feet ...

The devastation of our forests by foreign invaders is never-ending. It seems that once one species of tree sees its demise, ...

In the summer they bloom, in the fall they ripen and in the winter you can roast them on an open fire—or at least, hear Nat King Cole sing about them in his 1961 rendition of “The Christmas Song.” ...

China’s tree nut consumption is surging and pistachios from U.S. growers — that means California farmers — have emerged as one of the top options. The U.S. supplied 90,675 metric tons of pistachios to ...