Growing up in the Allegheny Mountains, I spent the first part of my childhood with my grandfather and cousins learning about plants, animals, and trees in the woods. There was ...

Walk through a hardwood forest in southern New Hampshire this year, and you may notice something unusual. Instead of their usual lush green canopy, some American beech trees look a bit weary — their ...

Beech Leaf Disease, caused by foliar nematodes, is devastating beech trees in Oakland Forest and other areas. A research study is underway to test treatments, including fungicide injections and tree ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russell Norton, horticulturist at the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension wrote In an email to the Cape Cod Times, that BLD was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fall in Northeast Ohio wouldn't be the same without the golden-yellow color of beech trees' oblong shaped leaves. But an invasive ...

What’s a scientist to do, when you need to reach the highest leaves in the forest and a giant crane isn’t an option? Learn to use a crossbow. Kristen Goodhue Nearly every beech tree in Harvard Forest ...

A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast believe it could be potentially devastating. Beech leaf disease was first detected in Ohio in 2012 and ...

Its nuts, rich in fat and protein, provide food for much of the forest fauna, along with forest habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Left untreated it is estimated the demise of a beech tree with BLD ...

The Maine Forest Service has reported the first deaths of beech trees caused by beech leaf disease. The department discovered those dead trees earlier this month in Knox County and Waldo County. The ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a type of microscopic worm, has spread rapidly across the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada since first detected in Ohio in 2012. The disease interferes with chlorophyll ...

But there’s hope, and that’s where Holden Arboretum is playing an important role, whether it’s researching spread of the disease, experimenting with insecticides, or trying to clone trees that are ...