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 ...

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 ...

EMPIRE, MICH. -- The latest effort to combat a disease affecting beech trees at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will continue after its initial project was deemed a success. Through a ...

Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at the Nature Conservancy, explains one of two diseases impacting beech trees. Beech trees are facing extinction. "When you say northern hardwood, that ...

BOLTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A disease threatening one of the Adriondack Park’s most commonly-sighted trees has reared its head. Last week, the Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP) reported a ...

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.

SOUTH WALES, N.Y. — Beech Leaf Disease was first discovered in Ohio in 2012. It spread quickly throughout the Northeast, arriving in WNY in Chautauqua County in 2018, and Erie County in 2019. It ...

Ms. Rush is the author of the book “The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth.” A few falls ago, a friend forwarded us a real estate listing. Though we were not really in the ...