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Growing chestnut tree from seed time lapse (165 days)

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...
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 ...
The Roanoke Times

Researchers work to save American chestnut trees from blight

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...
Brattleboro Reformer

N.H. chestnut tree may become key to species rebirth in New England

FARMINGTON, N.H. (AP) -- A healthy American chestnut tree discovered on a New Hampshire farm may serve as the "mother tree" to bring back a species nearly wiped out by Asian blight. The tree was found ...