A deadly fungus nearly erased the American chestnut from US forests more than a century ago, transforming one of the region's ...
For more than a century, the American chestnut, once a dominant tree across eastern North American forests, has been devastated by an invasive fungal disease that killed billions of trees in the early ...
Eric Evans, left, breeding orchard coordinator for the Maine chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, teaches volunteers how to pollinate chestnut trees at an orchard in Hope in this undated photo ...