Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest.

B eech leaf disease is spreading in Vermont, threatening the state's beech trees. The disease, first detected in Ohio about a ...

Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a fatal fungal pathogen ...

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

As beech leaf disease spreads, foresters and researchers race to understand its impact, retain healthy trees and prepare for ...

The disease is caused my an invasive microscopic worm. It was first detected in the state four years ago and has now spread ...

Among the 33 invasive species and diseases on the Michigan's watchlist, 18 have been detected in Michigan: balsam woolly adelgid, beech leaf disease, hydrilla, spotted lanternfly, lesser celandine ...

The nematode that causes beech leaf disease enters leaf buds and spends the winter in them, causing damage to leaf tissue on American, European and Asian beech species. Trees weakened by leaf ...

The beech tree — present in all 88 counties — plays an important role in Ohio's forests, serving as a food source and even a home for a vast array of wildlife. According to the Ohio Department ...

Beech leaf disease was added to Michigan’s invasive species watch list in January 2021 to encourage nurseries, foresters, residents and land managers to look for and report suspected ...

Each summer, like clockwork, millions of beech trees throughout Europe sync up, tuning their reproductive physiology to one another. Within a matter of days, the trees produce all the seeds they ...

Beech syrup samples produced for the NNYADP-funded research evaluating the economic feasibility of producing syrup from American beech trees; on the left, syrup made using reverse osmosis before ...