Brown, curled leaves on an American Chestnut tree indicate it was killed by blight. Ed Suba Jr. Tribune News Service Q: I’ve read that white tail deer enjoy chestnuts, and there is a variety ...

To tackle this problem, he uses deer spray and mesh nets. Emery and other volunteers planted around 6,000 chestnut trees in the orchard in effort to breed blight-resistant chestnut tree hybrids.

Some chestnut tree varieties can reach a height of 60 feet and will shade out other tree species, while hazelnut trees can reach a height of approximately 25 feet.

Restoring chestnut trees would provide feed for a variety of wildlife in Vermont, including deer, bear and turkey, would eat chestnuts.

A chestnut grove in Mendham suffered from heavy deer damage, and two plots on New Jersey Conservation property in Hunterdon County have lost most of their trees.

These days our world seems to grow ever faster. Of course, faster is a relative term - for the scientists trying to revive the American chestnut tree,… ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

Guilford group tries to establish blight-resistant chestnut Walk around the forests and parks of Connecticut, and you won't see many American chestnut trees stretching into the canopy.