In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to chestnut oak, sometimes called rock chestnut oak. It is an oak species commonly found in the southern part of ...

Timber from this former giant is naturally rot-resistant and nearly as durable as oak yet lighter. American chestnut populations went into decline after the introduction of chestnut blight. Chestnut ...

Timber obtained from White Chestnut Oak Trees. It strikes a balance between hardness and toughness, making it easy to process. Though it appears no different from most other wood, its color grows ...

Founding members of the New York Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation approached Dr. William Powell and Dr. Charles Maynard of ESF in 1989, asking them about using modern tools of genetic ...

ENOUGH oak trees to offset 1,000 journeys to the moon have been planted at a Herefordshire castle. The National Trust's Croft Castle, near Leominster, received the funding for more than 200 trees to ...

From left to right, the trees are a blight-susceptible wild-type American chestnut (C. dentata) called Ellis 1, a blight-resistant Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) tree called 'Qing,' and two ...