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 ...

A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the northeast believe it could be potentially devastating. Beech leaf disease was first detected in Ohio in 2012 and ...

Jun. 12—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 ...

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 ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a type of microscopic worm, has spread rapidly across the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada since first detected in Ohio in 2012. The disease interferes with chlorophyll ...

When I lived in Arlington, VA, my daily walk took me past an enormous beech tree—probably about 100 years old—with gnarled roots exposed by erosion. Those roots look like a person’s hand reaching out, ...

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