The New York Times

URGE STATES TO ACT TO SAVE SHADE TREES; Thousands Killed in the Last Year by the Ravages of Insects. CHESTNUT TREES DOOMED Few Sound Ones Left in This State and New Jersey ...

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New Hampshire Public Radio

UNH’s chestnut trees may not repopulate forests. But they’re still helping the effort.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...
Digital Journal

Pest On The Rampage – Leaf Miner Attacks Horse-Chestnut Foliage

FRANKFURT (dpa) ­- The horse chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella, a moth of unknown origin, is tiny, silent and inconspicuous and yet it leaves a trail of destruction in its wake. The moths ...
Berkshire Eagle

A fungus wiped out 3.5 billion American chestnut trees. Scientists believe genetically-engineered blight-resistant trees will bring them back

The application of genetic engineering to food crops is controversial, and rightly so. Critics worry that changing genetics may have harmful, unanticipated effects on food safety and the environment.
KSTP-TV

Twolined chestnut borer threatens Minnesota’s oak trees, DNR says

“They’re really majestic trees,” she says. “They go back centuries of importance to people.” Hagerty, an arborist for 11 years, and the owner of Arbor Gold Tree Services in Plymouth, is fighting to ...