When you hear about endangered species, most of us think about the plights of our furry or feathered friends. This article describes the plight of some of the less cuddly members of the endangered ...

Butternut (Juglans cinera) is a tree that is more valuable for its sweet oily tasting nuts than for its lumber. In fact, the genus name “juglans” means “nut of Jupiter.” The nuts are oval shaped ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, meet a rarely found native tree that is closely related to the black walnut, the butternut. The butternut has been plagued by fungal disease, but can be identified by ...

Thousand cankers disease, a fungus spread by a beetle, can kill walnut and butternut trees by destroying tissue just beneath the bark. (New York State Invasive Species) Syracuse, N.Y. -- A tree ...

Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, University of Connecticut undergraduates have published ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Now is the time to collect walnut and butternut seeds for planting this fall ...

Q: What happened to all the butternuts? I remember as a child that these trees were very common and my parents always harvested the nuts. Now, they are so scarce, and without the nuts, I am not sure ...

Butternuts are soft and oily, with a light walnut flavor that lingers on the tongue. But few Americans have tasted this endangered native. Now, UConn undergraduates have published the first full map ...

Trees like the American chestnut and the American elm have suffered well-known population collapses due to the introduction of nonnative fungal pathogens. Less well known is the decimation of the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Alcoa Highway, just five miles south of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Campus, is the East Tennessee Research Education Center-Plant Sciences Unit, a 212-acre field ...

A Capitol Campus tree-planting project that got off to a controversial start last spring appears to be headed for a sad ending. A butternut tree transplanted from the former homestead of Tumwater ...