The zoo is branching out. The Bronx Zoo introduced a “functionally extinct” tree species at its grounds Monday — more than a ...
Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. But by the 1950s, this venerable tree ...
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 ...
Native trees adapt to the climate and environmental conditions of their area to survive. Researchers in the College of Natural Resources and Environment in collaboration with the American Chestnut ...
How did three blight-tolerant American chestnuts from Maine, grown on the family land of Seth Sprague ’75, end up in President's Park in Washington, DC? Tom Klak, an environmental scientist and ...
The American chestnut is returning to the Bronx Zoo more than 120 years after blight was first documented there. The zoo and ...
Chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) represent a group of economically and ecologically significant forest species distributed across Europe, Asia and North America. Genetic diversity within and among ...
Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author of 14 books, including the forthcoming “Flight of the Godwit.” This fall, I went hiking on Sugarloaf Mountain, about 30 miles northwest of the District.
Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...
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