Q: What can you tell me about American and Chinese chestnut? A: American chestnut (genus Castanea, species dentate) is in the beech family. This tree was a plentiful species, providing 25 percent of ...

Don Stephens uses salvaged American chestnut to make striking interior trim and furniture. When woodworker Don Stephens buys material for his interior trim and furniture jobs, he often buys it in ...

Leading the way down a grassy lane on an October morning, Tim Eck paused regularly to look skyward and examine the treetops bordering a narrow path cutting through a southern Lancaster County chestnut ...

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