This week on the Local Food Report, grieving the beech trees of Provincetown’s beech forest—and the nuts they’ve long ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Beech leaf disease, a slow but steady killer of large numbers of beeches, has spread from Ohio, where it was first identified ...

This leaf disease has been firmly established in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and has spread north into New ...

The western White Mountains have long been my personal favorite: less crowded, scenic villages and quieter hiking trails to explore.

Unlike many other trees, beech trees can survive in lower light strata caused by oaks, tulip poplars and other sun seekers.

Local landowners are encouraged to check their beech trees for signs of invasive beech leaf disease after the disease was found in St. Clair County earlier this year. The disease causes characteristic ...

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Drought, plus beech bark disease, plus beech leaf disease can really be a bad combination,” says Jeff Garnas, an associate ...

A confounding new disease is killing beech trees in Ohio and elsewhere, and plant scientists are sounding an alarm while looking for an explanation. Researchers and naturalists in northeastern Ohio ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast ...