A new study found differences at the cellular level of leaves from infected Beech trees -- variations that may account for tree mortality. Beech trees provide food for animals, timber for wood ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.

Beech leaf disease is out there once again, decimating beech trees in Massachusetts, as it has in the past. It's a relatively new tree disease, which first appeared in 2012 in Ohio, and has since ...

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 ...

A new tree disease has spread in forests in Massachusetts, joining invasive pests and climate change as top priorities for foresters to address. The state has found beech leaf disease in more than 90 ...

Beech Leaf Disease is spreading around the Northeast and the microscopic worms that come with it are attacking trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Arborists have been working on a potential ...

GREEN. WE ARE AT SANBORN MILLS FARM IN LOUDON. I’M JOINED BY SEAN O’BRIEN WITH UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. SEAN, WE’RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE BEECH TREE TODAY. VERY COMMON SPECIES HERE IN NEW ENGLAND.

They were here 40 years ago when I moved in. Only when the stately, smooth gray barked giants on my wooded lot annually dropped their beech nuts, protected in their soft but spiny shells, did I really ...

Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest. Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided ...

Beech trees, one of the most abundant and crucial hardwood trees in New Hampshire, are getting pummeled by beech leaf disease this season. “The trees actually look quite terrible,” said Jeff Garnas, ...

A leaf from a tree in West Rock Ridge State Park in New Haven shows symptoms of infection from Beech Leaf Disease. Beech trees provide food for animals, timber for wood products, and sustenance for ...