Virginia Mae Chestnut Entered into eternal rest on Saturday 9/24/22 in El Sobrante, CA. Public Viewing will be held on Monday 10/10/22 at Fouche’s Hudson Funeral Home, 3665 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, ...

On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Tech researchers have collaborated with the American Chestnut Foundation to examine the genome of American chestnut trees, which may help restoration of the ...

FAUQUIER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Did you know that an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees, a species native to Virginia and other states, were wiped out by a fungus? The American Chestnut ...

A photo of water chestnut trapa bispinosa, a now invasive species potentially linked to Canada geese traversing northern Virginia. (Courtesy, USGS/Dept. of the Interior) Efforts are ramping up to root ...

That's a sight GP and the foundation wants to see again. "This is the first of this kind of planting in Virginia," said Katy McCune, the foundation's Mid-Atlantic Regional Science Coordinator. "This ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Forestry is asking for help from Virginians in its effort to replant oak, walnut and chestnut trees in the Commonwealth. Virginians who are interested ...

Chestnut devotees might identify with one of two groups: those who love to eat chestnuts and those who are pursuing work to restore the American chestnut as a seed-producing plant member of the ...