We're in a field of neck high grass in the Lesesne State Forest in Virginia. We’re looking at one of the East’s largest plantings of blight-resistant chestnut trees.

The American chestnut was all but destroyed by fungal blight and logged as settlements spread west when the United States was settled by Europeans. But lately, it’s making a comeback.

A century of data uncovers how chestnut blight has devastated the American chestnut - and how forest composition has evolved since - in Shenanoah National Park, Virginia ...

ESF Home > News > 2015 News Archives > Tests Show Wheat Gene Increases Blight Resistance of Chestnut Trees Dr. Lindi Quackenbush Named Interim Vice President for Research at ESF ESF’s Ranger School ...

ESF Darling Chestnut Science Summary December 15, 2023 Summary This page includes summaries of scientific studies on Darling 54 chestnuts. Two separate chestnut blight inoculations (controlled, ...