Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them about using modern tools of genetic ...
The pathogen that killed off the American chestnut arrived before 1900, carried on Japanese chestnut saplings imported for sale. The blight spread inexorably through America’s eastern forests ...
In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to chestnut oak, sometimes called rock chestnut oak. It is an oak species commonly found in the southern part of ...