Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Over the years Ohio trees have had a continuing list of problems. Oak wilt is currently affecting oak trees. Before that, there was the Emerald Ash Bore for ash trees and earlier there was Dutch Elm ...

It may be the height of maple syrup season in the Northeast, but one researcher in northern New York has turned his focus to another type of sap. Adam Wild, the director of the Uihlein Maple Research ...

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 ...

That's the way Meredith Cochran describes the young stand of beech trees that is dying on the upper reaches of land she owns in Hancock behind her house. Three years ago, Cochran first noticed the ...

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 ...