It’s time to appreciate the iconic American beech tree; it comprises nearly 40% of our northern forests, and the species ...

Unfortunately, there is a substantial threat to this tree that spans across the eastern United States — beech leaf disease (BLD). Left untreated, the demise of a beech tree with BLD occurs in 2-7 ...

TANNERSVILLE — Marc Wolf steps off a trail at the Mountaintop Arboretum to examine a beech tree with mottled, bumpy bark. “This is pretty typical of beech bark disease,” he said. “Beech ...

Sean O'Brien, from the UNH Cooperative Extension, takes a look at how beech leaf disease spreads and the signs to help you ...

A cedar that The Beatles climbed, an oak featured in Virginia Woolf's Orlando and a beech from the final scenes of 1917 have ...

American beech is known for its smooth light gray to nearly silver bark. When looking for a deeply ridged tree, don’t go any farther than a Sassafras tree. Sassafras trees have reddish-brown, deeply ...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced there are worsening conditions of beech leaf disease in the state.

Beech bark disease has afflicted the trees for about 100 years. Kat Bolus / WVIA News. Pat McElhenny, Pennsylvania Stewardship Manager at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), ...

Beech Bark Disease (BBD): A disease complex initiated by the feeding of Cryptococcus fagisuga that causes bark damage, subsequently allowing Neonectria fungi to infect the tree.

One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery green leaf in spring that gradually changes to a dark green in ...