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 ...

KIRTLAND, Ohio – Scientists at Holden Arboretum are confident that genetics play a role in whether an American beech tree will succumb to a disease that’s been ravaging their numbers for more than a ...

A study led by scientists at the Holden Arboretum has found evidence that beech leaf disease (BLD) symptom development is genetically controlled, providing the first evidence that some American beech ...

Trees are suffering one devastating epidemic after another, unleashed by insects and bacteria that enter the country because ...

American beech, European beech and Copper beech are all susceptible to beech leaf disease, which eventually kills the tree. We’re seeing the impacts of the disease in individual trees and in our ...

Saddler's Woods is trying to save the American beech trees that make up a large part of the centuries-old ecosystem.

American beech Fagus grandifolia) is one of the dominant trees in the northern forest. Do you have a street in your town named Beech Street or maybe a Beech Hill? You probably don’t give it another ...

A decade after the emergence of beech leaf disease (BLD) in northeast Ohio, a new study by researchers at The Holden Arboretum reveals that American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is experiencing ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - Michigan natural resources officials are asking residents to keep watch for an invasive worm recently discovered in the state that could affect American beech trees.

Threats hiding in plain sight could upend forests far and wide. By Claire Brown America’s trees are not OK, my colleague ...

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 summer ...

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 ...