Researchers work to bring back the American Chestnut Tree

American chestnut restoration efforts are underway, with researchers discovering how compounds in Chinese chestnuts resist ...
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American chestnut trees return to Bronx Zoo 122 years after blight discovery

More than a century after a disease first spotted at the Bronx Zoo helped wipe out billions of American chestnut trees across ...
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American Chestnut Trees, Functionally Extinct in the Wild, Return to the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo for the First Time in More Than a Century

At the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo on Oct. 5, 2026, 20 American chestnut trees resistant to a fungus that wiped out 4 billion of these trees in the early 1900's were planted in three ...

20 Chestnut Trees: A Cause for Celebration at the Bronx Zoo

American chestnut trees were wiped out more than a century ago. Now, new trees that are fungus-resistant are being planted at ...

Thousand Chestnut Challenge is on in NYC to return American chestnut tree to its roots

The tree had been an invaluable resource for those living in this part of the country, but in the early 1900s, billions of ...

East Tennessee scientists are working to restore the American chestnut tree

The American chestnut tree was a vital part of the Appalachian forest until a fungus nearly wiped it out over a century ago.

Bronx Zoo plants mini-forest of ‘functionally extinct’ trees after species was ravaged by fungus

The zoo is branching out. The Bronx Zoo introduced a “functionally extinct” tree species at its grounds Monday — more than a ...
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The American Chestnut tree returns to the Bronx Zoo after more than a century

The Bronx Zoo is getting 25 blight-resistant chestnut saplings as part of the effort to bring the tree back from extinction.
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Chestnut trees to spread across landscape again, says Purdue scientist

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University researcher is working to restore the American chestnut, an important wildlife tree and timber resource that dominated the landscape from Maine to Mississippi ...