To a passerby, it probably looked like the volunteers wandering a soggy Murrysville meadow one morning this week were just pushing muddy sticks into the ground. In actuality, they were planting three ...

No, Darling American chestnuts are not hybrids. Hybrid trees have a blended genome from two related species, such as American chestnut and Chinese chestnut. In contrast, Darling trees retain all of ...

Next we will start “diluting” the American chestnut characteristics through breeding to obtain a plant that is mostly Ozark chinquapin. This summer, we moved one step closer to our goal: we crossed ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at ...

The West Virginia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation reports that hybrid chestnut trees have already been planted at 68 sites in 26 West Virginia counties, though there are also native ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air ...